The Age<\/em> if Japan was ready in the event China made a move against Taiwan, Emanuel said all countries needed to do more.<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s more for all of us to do,\u201d Barack Obama\u2019s former chief of staff said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s one of the lessons we\u2019ve learned \u2026 all of us have a lot to do and all of us are involved in real-time doing what we need to do to bring our game up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not for me to discuss AUKUS,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s for a higher level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emanuel reportedly infuriated China\u2019s leadership last week with a series of tweets that drew parallels between the mystery of missing Chinese ministers and whodunit novels by Agatha Christie.<\/p>\n
Emanuel was speaking to the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan, when he gave an address outlining how the three \u201cCs\u201d of the last four years \u2013 COVID, conflict and coercion \u2013 were defining the geopolitical landscape.<\/p>\n
He singled out China\u2019s coercion of Australia and Japan as examples of how Beijing used a range of its powers as the world\u2019s second-largest economy to try and deprive countries of their political agency.<\/p>\n
In early 2020, China slapped Australian wine, coal and barley with huge tariffs after former prime minister Scott Morrison called for a COVID inquiry. Beijing faced losing a case launched by Australia in the World Trade Organisation and lifted its taxes on barley, but the extra charges on Australian wine remain in place.<\/p>\n
In September 2021, Morrison announced the AUKUS plan for Australia to acquire nuclear-propelled submarines in partnership with the US and UK.<\/p>\n
Nobou Tanaka, a former director of the International Energy Agency, said nuclear-propelled submarines would be the most strategic deterrence against North Korea, China and Russia for Japan, and asked Emanuel for his own views in a question and answer session after the ambassador\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not touching that with a 10-foot pole \u2013 that\u2019s my view on that,\u201d Emanuel said to Tanaka. \u201cIf you want to talk to the Japanese government about nuclear subs, I can give you a phone number.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Emanuel was not negative about nuclear sub co-operation with Japan. He meant it is up to the Japanese government,\u201d Tanaka told this masthead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Japan deploys Tomahawk missiles, we will need nuclear submarines, but the Ministry of Defence is cautious due to the public image of nuclear power and very high costs of nuclear sub and its personnel.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must now publicly discuss the role of nuclear power for national defence. Of course we should not have nuclear weapons, but nuclear-propulsion subs with regular Tomahawks may add important deterrence for Japan against North Korea, China and Russia together with the US nuclear umbrella.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emanuel praised Prime Minister Fumio Kishida\u2019s decision to raise Japan\u2019s defence spending to two per cent of GDP. Kishida has previously warned that the unprovoked war in Ukraine could be replicated in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n
After an NBC report claiming he\u2019d been asked to rein in his provocative posts taunting China, the latest of which likened the disappearance of China\u2019s defence minister to a plot line from an Agatha Christie novel, Emanuel doubled down, releasing new photographs which he said were Chinese vessels fishing in Japan\u2019s waters \u2013 the same area from where Beijing has blocked Japanese seafood imports.<\/p>\n
China claims the fish are contaminated by Japan\u2019s recent release of treated wastewater from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, which the International Atomic Energy Agency has said is safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the fish and the concern about the fish is a public health area, why is China still fishing in Japan\u2019s waters? That\u2019s the question,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do appreciate the attention on me, but let\u2019s not lose our perspective on the bigger picture \u2013 you have a defence minister who [has gone missing] about a month after the foreign minister\u2019s gone missing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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