The Diplomat: Japan’s Stealth Fighter Gambit

"It’s an arms race Beijing claims it doesn’t want, Russia can’t afford, the United States believes it can’t afford and Japan probably isn’t prepared for on its own.
All the same, the intensifying competition to build radar-evading jet fighters has had a powerful effect on the politics, industry and military forces of the Pacific’s four greatest powers – and none more so than Japan’s."
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