The President's Daily Brief
December 10th, 2025: Japan’s New “Missile Archipelago” Stuns Beijing & Joint China-Russia Flyover Against South Korea
10 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This month is just flying by. If I'm not incorrect, you've got two weeks of Christmas shopping time left. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed.
First up, a major military buildup is underway as Japan races to construct what's being called a missile archipelago, aimed squarely at countering China's aggressiveness near Taiwan. Later in the show, South Korea scrambles fighter jets after Chinese and Russian warplanes enter its air defense zone, signaling tighter military coordination, of course, between Beijing and Moscow.
Plus, sources say Israeli teams conducted surveillance on U.S. and allied officials at a joint base involved in Gaza planning. And in today's Back of the Brief, UAE-backed separatists tighten their grip on southern Yemen, threatening to split the already troubled country. But first, today's PDB Spotlight.
Last month on this show, we told you about Japan's decision to deploy a surface-to-air missile system to Yonaguni, that's the tiny Japanese island just 68 miles from Taiwan's coast. At the time, Tokyo described it as a defensive upgrade, one battery, one island, meant to help detect and intercept hostile aircraft or drones.
Well, based on new reporting, it turns out that deployment was only the opening act. Japan isn't simply fortifying one island near Taiwan. It is carrying out the largest, most comprehensive military buildup since World War II, a transformation so big that some inside Japan are now calling it a missile archipelago. And the scale of what's happening is definitely significant.
Across the entire 160 island Ryukyu chain, that's a long arc of islands that runs from Japan's main islands all the way down toward Taiwan, Japan is building new missile batteries, radar stations, ammunition depots, electronic warfare units, and hardened infrastructure designed specifically to counter China. They're already under construction and in some places already operational.
This build-up has roots going back several years. In 2022, after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, China fired missiles that landed near Yonaguni. That incident jolted Japanese planners and convinced Tokyo that the old assumptions about distance and safety no longer applied. But the recent remarks from Japan's new Prime Minister, Sanae Takeuchi, accelerated everything.
When she said a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could trigger a, quote, survival-threatening situation requiring Japanese intervention, Beijing erupted and Japan then doubled down on its preparations. Now we're seeing what that looks like on the ground. Yonaguni itself has already changed dramatically.
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Chapter 2: What is Japan's strategy behind the new missile archipelago?
Some residents on the islands worry that their homeland could become a battleground. Others argue that China's pressure leaves Japan with no alternative. And Japanese defense officials are being clear. These deployments are about deterrence, making the region too costly for China to dominate. Which brings us back to the bigger picture.
Japan's military posture is changing, rapidly, visibly, and permanently. Yonaguni was the first sign, but Magashima and the broader fortification of the entire Ryukyu chain show a country preparing for the possibility of a Taiwan crisis that spills into its own territory. And Tokyo is no longer shy about saying so.
If a conflict breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, Japan could be pulled in almost immediately, not by choice, but by geography and alliance commitments. And Beijing is reacting, well, like a government that understands the strategic map of East Asia is shifting under its feet. All right. Coming up next, South Korea scrambles jets after a joint Chinese-Russian fly-through of its air defense zone.
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Tension is rising on the Korean Peninsula after Seoul scrambled fighter jets yesterday when Russian and Chinese aircraft entered its air defense zone. Moscow and Beijing insist it's nothing unusual, absolutely nothing to see here, just a military exercise. But with the two increasingly in sync, these drills are getting harder to ignore. It's becoming a regular dance.
Russia and China execute military exercises in the Korea Air Self-Defense Identification Zone, and you say, does that have an acronym? Well, of course it does, and that would be KADIZ, K-A-D-I-Z, the Korea Air Self-Defense Identification Zone. Seoul sends its pilots into the air, and Moscow and Beijing's defense ministries insist that the situation is entirely under control.
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