Japan doesn’t have an alternative to its American alliance when confronting North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons threat or Beijing’s territorial aggression, a panel of regional experts agreed on Friday. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “wants to make sure the United States doesn’t get too far ahead” of Tokyo in defusing the still-volatile security situation on the Korean Peninsula or in its dealings with China on economic and diplomatic concerns across the Indo-Pacific, said Sheila Smith a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations. Japan has felt more pressure on what happens on the peninsula in the future because … Continue reading Panel: Japan Still Needs U.S. Protection from North Korean, Chinese Aggression