Japan's choice is to shape the global order or be shaped by it

With the US disengaged and China coercive, only Tokyo is in a position to preserve regional peace

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The Japanese Rising Sun flag flies on a ship inside the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force naval base on April 8, 2025. © Reuters

Mike Burke is a fellow at the Institute of Liberal Values, a lecturer at Meiji University and the former Public Policy Lead at Counterweight. 

As tensions rise across the Indo-Pacific, Japan faces a defining choice: Will it shape the new order -- or be shaped by it?

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