战争之王

去年在东京奥运会上夺冠后，巩立姣填补了运动生涯最后一个“金牌空白”，该拿的冠军都拿过了，但面对15日开幕的尤金世界田径锦标赛，她依然渴望赢得金牌。    According to the Japanese daily Nikkei, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will scrap its usual ceiling on defense-related spending requests for the coming fiscal year, paving the way for a dramatic increase in military spending. Kishida is set to approve the policy before the end of the month.,Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at the Tokyo campus of Temple University, told the South China Morning Post that the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe earlier this month had allowed his Liberal Democratic Party to pursue its longstanding goal of amending Article 9, the so-called pacifism clause, of Japan’s constitution.,“It is clear that Kishida was already planning to boost defense spending, but the assassination of Abe has served to put wind in his sails and even the normally extremely cautious Ministry of Finance is not now raising any objections,” Kingston told the Hong Kong paper.,Abe’s killing, just days before parliamentary elections, catapulted the Liberal Democrats, a right-wing party, to a resounding victory and an even greater majority in the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Japanese Diet.,He said that between recent missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), increased tensions with China over Taiwan, and Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, Kishida’s government was “almost spoiled for choice” when it came to justifications for hiking the defense budget.,Japan, US Hold Joint Air Drills Involving 52 Aircraft: Military14 July, 07:48 GMT,“[W]hat is interesting is that if Abe had put forward these plans when he was prime minister, there would have been a quick and harsh pushback,” Kingston told the SCMP. During his nine years in power, Abe pushed to remove or amend the pacifism clause of the Japanese constitution that was put in place after World War II as a guard against renewed Japanese militarism.,“Everything that has happened in Ukraine has really put the liberal left on the back foot and altered that commitment to peace that has long been a part of the national psyche,” he added. “I had expected a more vigorous response, but it has been relatively muted.”,According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Japan had the world’s ninth-largest military budget last year, spending $54.1 billion, or 1.1% of its GDP, despite its pacifist constitution. That was a 7.3% increase over its budget the previous year, the largest increase of any of the top 15 military spenders except for Iran.,Nonetheless, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said in April that Kishida’s government has plans to double that to 2% of GDP within five years. At a projected $108 billion per year, that would make Japan's military budget the world’s third-largest, after the United States and China. Kishi said Japan was particularly interested in “counterstrike capabilities” that could hit the bases of countries that attack the island nation.,However, the move isn’t particularly popular with the Japanese public. A June poll by Japan’s Kyodo News Agency found that while 37.2% of Japanese citizens surveyed supported the proposed increase, almost as many, 31.5%, opposed it.。

B | “谁还嫌冠军多呢？我仍然有更多的目标，希望拿好多的冠军。”第八次参加世界锦标赛的巩立姣告诉新华社记者。

C | 12日下午三点，尤金烈日当空，两天前抵达美国的巩立姣和参加女子铅球比赛的队友宋佳媛和张林茹一起，进行了两个多小时的训练，这也是她到美国后的首次室外训练。

东京奥运会夺冠后，巩立姣给自己放了半年的长假，4个月前才恢复训练，但她对目前的状态感到非常满意。“尽管无法与东京奥运会时相比，但基本已经恢复到了90%。

D | ” 奥运会上夺冠并没有消减这位33岁的“老将”心中对夺冠的渴望，并且除了冠军，她还有更高的梦想。“我以前的梦想是在奥运会上赢得冠军，但我的终极梦想是成绩能够突破21米，我也希望下届奥运会之前，或者是巴黎奥运会上，能突破自己，达到自己的极限。” 东京奥运会上，巩立姣以20米58的成绩赢得冠军，这也是她的个人最好成绩，她认为，未来三年突破21米绝非梦想。“21米不是太遥远，其实东京奥运会的时候，我也没有发挥得特别好，我相信还有没有展现出来的实力，因此很想达到21米的目标。” 从11岁开始练习铅球，巩立姣在田径场上摸爬滚打了20多年，她说奥运夺冠后，很多人劝她退役，因为已经“功成名就”，所有的大赛冠军都拿过了，应该急流勇退。但巩立姣决定继续练下去，因为心中对铅球运动有太多的不舍。“不舍得。”她说，“其实即使巴黎奥运会后退，也会不舍，希望慢慢退。20多年了，铅球已经成了生命中的一部分，现在训练中，感觉铅球就是我的朋友，离不开它。” 还有一个重要原因，她认为中国田径运动进入了历史上最好的一个时期，出于感恩，她觉得应该为国家赢得更多的荣誉。“现在国家给提供了这么好的训练和比赛环境，我现在也没有伤病，因此必须要坚持下去。” 尤金世锦赛将在俄勒冈大学体育场举行，巩立姣以前曾两次来过这里参赛，对场地很熟悉。女子铅球比赛将在7月15日和16日两天举行，巩立姣对困难也非常清醒，本赛季对手全部保持了很好的状态，最好成绩超过20米的选手有6人之多，这是往年很少见的现象。庆幸的是，这6名选手中，就有来自上海的小将宋佳媛，她本赛季先后投出20米20、20米38，两度排名赛季世界第一。巩立姣说，能够看到小将接棒，心中非常欣慰。“以前感觉是一个人在战斗，现在有了接班人，心里踏实了很多。

E | ”巩立姣说。【编辑:王禹】