After Use Seller Elbridge Colby
The Government of Japan rejects the request made by Elbridge Colby, candidate in place of deputy secretary of the US defense in the current Trump administration, to increase military spending to 3% of the gross domestic product to “better face the growing security challenges”.
According to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba “Japan determines their expenditure for defense independently and not on the indication of other countries”, while the secretary of Cabinet Yoshimasa Hayashi underlined “the importance of the value of military skills rather than the amount of the budget”.
Declarations arrived following the hearing in the Senate, during which Colby had said in a written press release that “Japan should spend at least 3% of the GDP for the defense, and as soon as possible.” The Tokyo government has long limited its expenditure for the defense to about 1% of the GDP, corresponding to about 5,000 billion yen (31.2 billion billion), but in recent years has increased the budget with the aim of reaching 2% by 2027 Spent only 2% “, referring to Trump’s requests so that Taiwan and NATO member countries allocated 10% and 5% of the GDP to military spending respectively.
