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Jesse Johnson

Tokyo

News Desk Manager and Reporter at The Japan Times

Defense/diplomacy @Japantimes • views my own • jesse.johnson @ japantimes. co. jp / https://t.co/Y3CzQ8kYrE

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  • Escalation fears rise in Japan following Chinese moves near Senkakus

    5 days ago | japantimes.co.jp | Jesse Johnson

    Concerns are growing in Tokyo after a Chinese government helicopter violated Japan's airspace around the Senkaku Islands, following a flight by a small Japanese civilian plane in the area and as Beijing sent government ships to the waters near the uninhabited islets in the East China Sea for more than 170 straight days.

  • North Korea fires off missile from eastern coast

    1 week ago | japantimes.co.jp | Jesse Johnson

    North Korea fired at least one unidentified ballistic missile off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea’s military said. Pyongyang last fired multiple ballistic missiles on March 10 toward the Yellow Sea, hours after condemning joint South Korean-U.S. military drills. Those launches were the first reported ballistic missile tests since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January.

  • Japan, India to set up new consultation defense cooperation framework

    1 week ago | japantimes.co.jp | Jesse Johnson

    Japan and India have agreed to set up a new defense cooperation consultation body, the two countries’ defense chiefs have said, as Tokyo and New Delhi look to counter China’s growing military presence in the Indo-Pacific region.

  • China's Xi to visit Russia for Victory Day events and talks with Putin

    1 week ago | japantimes.co.jp | Jesse Johnson

    Chinese leader Xi Jinping will pay an official visit to Russia from Wednesday through Saturday, the Kremlin and Foreign Ministry in Beijing said Sunday, with Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold talks on bolstering their “no-limits” partnership even further. Xi, who had already been among the world leaders set to attend a Victory Day parade in Moscow on Friday, will visit at the invitation of Putin, according to both governments.

  • China Coast Guard helicopter enters Japanese airspace near Senkakus

    1 week ago | japantimes.co.jp | Jesse Johnson

    A China Coast Guard helicopter entered Japan’s territorial airspace around the Japanese-controlled, Chinese-claimed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Saturday — just the fourth such incursion by a Chinese aircraft ever.

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Jesse Johnson
Jesse Johnson @jljzen
12 May 25

U.S. and China reach deal to slash tariffs, officials say https://t.co/sN0BU48Rwa

Jesse Johnson
Jesse Johnson @jljzen
12 May 25

A top Philippine general has said he expects the Self-Defense Forces’ involvement in both bilateral and multilateral activities to grow substantially, following the SDF’s limited participation in large-scale military activities that wrapped up last week. https://t.co/DZkrQLAicB

Jesse Johnson
Jesse Johnson @jljzen
11 May 25

RT @ChrisMurphyCT: There is no deal. There is nothing approximating a deal. They just make things up constantly.