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Making Sense of Japan’s Decision to Scrap Aegis Ashore Missile Defense

James Schoff joins the podcast to discuss Tokyo’s options on missile defense.

By Ankit Panda
June 26, 2020
Making Sense of Japan’s Decision to Scrap Aegis Ashore Missile Defense
Credit: cne-cna-c6f via Flickr

The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) speaks to James L. Schoff, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment on International Peace and an expert on U.S.-Japan relations, on Tokyo’s recent decision to scrap plans to deploy two Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense systems.

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