Diary of a rail fan in Kansai,Japan(Ver.2)

About world's rail news, general news, my train pictures, and travel diary)

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 - 非営利 - 改変禁止 4.0 国際 ライセンスの下に提供されています。

List of my travel diary My train photoes The other contents

Why are US troops so important?

Tokyo seeks US vow of support in East China Sea, as dispute with Beijing heats up
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3118835/tokyo-seeks-us-vow-support-east-china-sea-dispute-beijing-heats

When Trump stated that US can't afford to maintain military troops overseas like East Asia, it was treated as sad news in Japan. That's because repeated invasion of China's ships reminds Japan of the importance of US troops in Okinawa.
So, Biden's standpoint must be welcomed by Japan's government, while it will disappoint the news agency of this article (South China Morning Post)