Is China The Reason Why Many Countries In Asia Are Buying the F-35?

The Air Self-Defense Force’s F-35A fighter jet is shown at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture in February. Pool photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun

FoxTrot Alpha: China Says It's Not the Reason Countries Are Buying the F-35 (It Totally Is)

Countries across the Asia-Pacific are not—repeat not—buying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter because of China. That’s from China’s hawkish Global Times—an arm of the newspaper run by the Communist Party of China—which assured readers this week that, while they may read stories that Australia, Japan, South Korea, and now Singapore are all purchasing America’s newest stealth fighter, it has totally nothing to do with them.

The result is an interesting look at how the region views China’s rapidly expanding defense budget and an increasingly brash and powerful Beijing—and how that news gets spun within China itself.

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WNU Editor: China is the reason why there is currently a massive arms race occurring in Asia today .... An Asian Arms Race Is Underway (January 30, 2018).