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JAPAN took further steps towards militarisation yesterday, sending peacekeepers to South Sudan with a mandate to use force.
The 350 troops will replace a previous contingent of Japanese peacekeepers who served in the UN mission in South Sudan but were not authorised for armed intervention.
The new troops will tackle engineering and construction tasks in the capital Juba.
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs