{"id":7302,"date":"2022-01-06T14:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T12:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=7302"},"modified":"2022-01-06T14:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T12:14:52","slug":"australia-and-japan-sign-defense-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=7302","title":{"rendered":"Australia and Japan Sign Defense Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia has signed a defense agreement with Japan, a development that proves the great mobility that exists at the diplomatic and geopolitical level in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a statement that the agreement will allow cooperation between the two countries&#8217; armed forces for the first time in their history. &#8220;This agreement is a strong statement of the two nations&#8217; commitment to work together to address the common strategic challenges they face in the field of security but also to their contribution to the security and stability of the Indo-Pacific region.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new alliance that is being formed in the region should include India and of course the United States, which are creating a dynamic and powerful quartet, which has its eyes on China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Japan&#8217;s rearmament and huge defense budget for 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tokyo is now entering a new era, setting aside its lenient approach to defense, defense alliances, armaments, etc., which it pursued after the end of World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just Tuesday, the country&#8217;s parliament passed the highest post-war defense budget of about 35 billion euros, which includes armaments programs that are expected to significantly upgrade the capabilities of the Japanese armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the Japanese government is reviewing its doctrine so far, creating alliances aimed at creating a &#8220;front&#8221; against Chinese &#8220;aggression&#8221;, at least as perceived by Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is now expected with interest is Beijing&#8217;s reaction to these moves, as we recall that China had reacted very strongly to the AUKUS agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has signed a defense agreement with Japan, a development that proves the great mobility that exists at the diplomatic and geopolitical level in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[821,390],"tags":[2916,404,3232,252],"class_list":["post-7302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-politics","tag-aukus","tag-australia","tag-defence-agreement","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7304,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions\/7304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}