Posted: 13.02.2023 15:54:00

GT writes about US plans to turn Japan into 'Ukraine of Asia' to fight against China and Russia

The North Atlantic Alliance is developing a plan to provoke another Ukrainian-style crisis in the Indo-Pacific region, Global Times reports

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Columnist Song Zhongping believes that this scenario can be implemented if ‘at least one country in Asia wants to become a puppet to maintain US hegemony and contain China’. Japan is seen as the most likely candidate for this role, as 'it has always been a country that advocates power politics’, the analyst said.

“Japan considers itself a Western country and has a historical conflict with China. All this can be used by Washington, and Japan will become the ‘Ukraine of Asia’, the Global Times article says.

“NATO’s policy of expanding into the Indo-Pacific region is reminiscent of the Octopus strategy. The bloc itself will not be directly involved in regional affairs, but its tentacles will be,” the author believes.