"Beijing will be on the dowry": the war in Ukraine has made it easier for the US to be isolate China - the media

Japan purchases Tomahawk missiles and doubles the defense budget. The Philippines plan a joint patrol of the South Chinese Sea with Australia, the United States and Japan. A year later, as Russia has made a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian-Chinese Alliance Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping opened the opportunity to strengthen the once spoiled relations at the Peak of Beijing in the Pacific and their partners in the Pacific. About it reports CNN.

In the last few months, Japan has stated that it would double the defense budget and buy a distant radius of action in the United States. South Korea, for its part, acknowledged that stability in the Taiwanese Strait is important for the country's security. The Philippines talk about the joint patrol of the South Chinese Sea with Australia, Japan and the United States.

According to analysts, such events should be expected without war in Ukraine, but the invasion and support of the Kremlin's actions by the PRC contributed to this. Journalists say that it may be the most noticeable initiative, but they are not limited to them - and China is "isolated in the backyard" because it refuses to condemn the invasion of its partner's sovereign country and at the same time retains military pressure on Taiwan.

After the Second World War, the Constitution of Japan restricted the Armed Forces only "self -defense". Now the plans of Tokyo - to buy the winged "Tomahawk" rockets in the United States, which can be struck in China. Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kisida at a large defensive conference in Singapore last summer stated that today's Ukraine is East Asia tomorrow.

"The Japanese, of course, drew attention to what is happening in Ukraine, and this made them feel more vulnerable as a state," says John Bradford, a senior researcher at the School of International Research. S. Rajratman in Singapore. Japan's main threat comes from China, which recently stated that the military budget for 2023 will be increased by 7. 2%. This trend has been observed for the third consecutive year over the last decade.