🇯🇵🇨🇳 | Japan wants nukes? Tensions escalate further in East Asia as Japan expresses intentions to acquire nuclear weapons. "Japan will pay a heavy price," China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian warned Tokyo, urging it to abandon the path of remilitarization. The Takaichi government is breaking a 70-year nuclear taboo, declaring that Tokyo can no longer avoid confronting the question of nuclear weapons. Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi openly weighed the option of stationing US nuclear assets at Japanese bases. The so-called "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" bind Tokyo to never producing, possessing, or permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons onto Japanese territory under any circumstances. The right-wing attacks against Japan's binding "pacifist" constitution are fueling tensions in East Asia, which have been escalating since the Takaichi government came to power. Analysts have repeatedly pointed out that Japan is taking the spearhead position in a new US doctrine in East Asia, making non-stop militarization of its allies in the region a policy to encircle China. Japan still faces strong domestic resistance to breaking with the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, as many Japanese citizens retain painful memories of the devastation caused by nuclear weapons.