Should Japan go nuclear?

Ito Kan thinks so. In his book "China's nuclear will control the world" he argues:
1 China will economically and militarily will be the equal power to the US in 2020 and China will take the hegemony in Asia .(It is wrong, like some of Japanese "wishful thinkers" , to consider China will collapse. China has the hidden ambition and China has politics and technology and patience to achieve it.)

2 Japan needs to go nuclear to counter it if she does not wants to go under Chinese rule because
(1) Neither MDsystem* nor nuclear umbrella will be of help to Japanese security;for, the effectiveness of the MD system is doubtful and no country bothers to launch a nuclear weapon,risking the huge cost. just because the ally was attacked by a nuclear weapon.
(2) Under the circumstance where Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is not functioning since there is no sign that the NPT-recognized nuclear weapon states will go nonnuclear, it is useless, unrealistic and hypocritical to say it is against the spirit of the treaty to go nuclear.
(3)It will be much cheaper than MD system.

3 Though Japan-US alliance is important, don't trust the Democratic Party in the US too much; China has had traditionally strong influence over it.



*Related links
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