Japan rushes to rearm with eye on 2027 — and China's Taiwan ambitionsBetween China's 20th Communist Party Congress, that began Sunday, and the next one in 2027, Japan will undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War II in a race to deter Beijing from war in East Asia, according to Japanese government officials and security analysts. Japan identified China as its chief adversary in its 2019 defense white paper, worried that Beijing's flouting of international
