Japan's Drone Expansion: A Chilling Reversal of Post War Pacts? The PLA Daily, China's military mouthpiece, has issued a full page warning about Japan's growing drone capabilities.
The warnings suggest Tokyo is deliberately testing the limits of its post World War II pacifist constitution by relying increasingly on unmanned platforms to bypass constitutional constraints on military development.
At the heart of this issue lies Japan's 2022 national security documents, which identified "unmanned defence capabilities" as a priority for establishing a counterstrike ability.