⚡️America & Japan To Make Largest Amendments To Mutual Defense Treaty In Over 60 Years

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Financial Times:

America and Japan intend to make the largest update to the mutual defense treaty.

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BREAKING: The Financial Times reports President Biden and Japan's PM Kishida will 'announce plans to restructure the US military command in Japan' and 'bolster their security ties to respond to what they view as a growing threat from China'.

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ORIGINAL SOURCE

US and Japan plan biggest upgrade to security pact in more than 60 years

The US and Japan are planning the biggest upgrade to their security alliance since they signed a mutual defence treaty in 1960 in a move to counter China.

President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will announce plans to restructure the US military command in Japan to strengthen operational planning and exercises between the nations, according to five people familiar with the situation. They will unveil the plan when Biden hosts Kishida at the White House on April 10.

The allies want to bolster their security ties to respond to what they view as a growing threat from China, which requires their militaries to co-operate and plan more seamlessly, particularly in a crisis such as a Taiwan conflict.

While Biden and Kishida will herald the strength of the US-Japan alliance, the summit will come just weeks after the US president expressed his opposition to the Japanese group Nippon Steel acquiring US Steel. The intervention was designed to boost union support before the November election, but has partly soured the otherwise strong alliance.

Japan has over the past couple of years dramatically increased its security capabilities, spending much more on defence, including plans to buy US Tomahawk cruise missiles. The Japanese military is also setting up a “Joint Operations Command” next year to improve co-ordination between the branches of its own Self-Defense Forces.

But co-ordination between the allies is hampered because US Forces Japan (USFJ) has changed little from the days when the US and Japanese militaries did less together and has little command and control authority. Japan has to deal more with US Indo-Pacific command in Hawaii, which is 19 hours behind Tokyo and 6,200km away.

US and Japan plan biggest upgrade to security pact in over 60 years

Biden and Kishida to announce move to counter China at White House meeting next month

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US eyes change to military command in Japan as China threat looms, sources say​

US eyes change to military command in Japan as China threat looms, sources say

TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will agree next month to tighter military cooperation, including talks on the biggest potential change to Washington's East Asia command structure in decades, two sources said. Washington will...

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