Abe proposes an aggressive foreign policy aimed at containing China at any cost, including dragging the United States in to contain China when the JSDF can't do the job itself, because a strong China in the East Asia region won't forgive history and will relegate Japan to the status of a second-tier regional power. In theory, there's no problem with a JSDF that's autonomous and a fully legal military force, but in practice the result will be aggressive attempts at military containment of China.
The three outcomes here are as follows, #1, Abe's mouth writes a check the JSDF can't cash, so the JMSDF or the JASDF gets destroyed by the PLASAF, PLAAF, an PLAN. #2, Abe manages to drag the US into what is essentially a world war, and manages to wreck the Chinese while he's at it. #3, both sides, somehow, find a modus vivendi acceptable to both sides.
Two out of three outcomes are distinctly bad, because either the Chinese get blown up or the Japanese get blown up, and the third outcome seems distinctly suboptimal from a Chinese point of view, because with full extension the Japanese will just end up a spoiler for whatever aims the Chinese have in the region. From the Japanese point of view, one out of three is distinctly bad (the Americans fail to bail the JSDF, the JSDF gets destroyed), while the other is middling (better than being relegated to a second-tier power and being reduced to a Chinese satellite), and the third is excellent.
@ Terran Empire: I can understand the geopolitical logic behind the Sino-Japanese conflict (the Chinese look at the Japanese as a speedbump in their drive to regional hegemony, the Japanese don't want to be relegated to a second-rate power in a region where they used to be the #2 force after the USN), but the expressions of Sino-Japanese enmity are often laughable and the behavior is quite often childish.
