It marks a bid to make the two countries' militaries more nimble in response to regional threats.
TOKYO - US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin was set to announce an upgrade to US command structures in Japan on July 28, as Washington and Tokyo overhaul military cooperation in the face of an increasingly assertive China.
This will serve as a counterpart to Japan’s planned Joint Operations Command for all its armed forces, making the two militaries more nimble in the case of a crisis over Taiwan or the Korean peninsula. “Trilateral cooperation among Japan, the US and South Korea has become stronger and unshakable, even under various changes in the international situation,” Mr Kihara told reporters after the meeting.The discussions between Japan and the US were also set to cover enhancing Washington’s “extended deterrence” commitment to use its military capabilities, including nuclear weapons, to protect Japan.
On July 29, Mr Blinken and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa will meet Mr S. Jaishankar and Ms Penny Wong, their Indian and Australian counterparts in the Quad, an alliance seen as a bulwark against Beijing., Mr Blinken and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi sparred over what the top US diplomat had criticised as Beijing’s “escalatory and unlawful actions” in the South China Sea.
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