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    The China embassy break-in by an SDF officer is a bigger issue than the Japanese public realizes: “An active-duty officer with good performance reviews invaded another country’s sovereign territory with weapons based on his political beliefs. This signifies a collapse of civilian control"
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    The China embassy break-in by an SDF officer is a bigger issue than the Japanese public realizes: “An active-duty officer with good performance reviews invaded another country’s sovereign territory with weapons based on his political beliefs. This signifies a collapse of civilian control”


    The China embassy break-in by an SDF officer is a bigger issue than the Japanese public realizes: “An active-duty officer with good performance reviews invaded another country’s sovereign territory with weapons based on his political beliefs. This signifies a collapse of civilian control”

    https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/917fa2fbf24350fe91742107fe37d80a2c237927

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    1. emp_sanfords_hardhat on

      How does it signify collapse of civilian control if it’s a military officer?

    2. alien4649 on

      Imagine a PLA officer in Beijing doing the same in the Japanese embassy in Beijing. However unlikely that the PRC government would have been involved, the perception would be that they lost some control of their Army. This incident is a huge opportunity for the Chinese to raise a fuss.

    3. Kmlevitt on

      Japan’s army actually has a bad history of doing this kind of thing. Leading to and during ww2 Basically the military operated autonomously (even from one another – the army didn’t know what the Navy was doing and vice versa) and the civilian government had lost control over them. In the 1930s any civilian politician that protested the actions of the army and navy overseas, even in the mildest way, risked assassination. Even the Prime Minister got killed. A big reason Japan didn’t surrender for so long was because the cabinet knew that if they did it it would be their heads.

      Now you can argue that that’s all in the past, and that this is an isolated incident by one guy. But it’s not a good look, to put it mildly. If China wants to create propaganda that Japan is “returning to its imperialist past”, you couldn’t do better than stories like this.