US, Japan to Announce Big Alliance Upgrade to Counter China

Published on April 10, 2024

President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will announce the biggest upgrade to the United States-Japan alliance in more than 60 years, according to senior administration officials. For the first time, the United States will change its force structure in Japan to maximize joint operations in terms of capacity capability and integrated performance, officials said. The United States will also establish a military-industrial council to evaluate where co-production of defense weapons is possible. Japan’s industrial capacity and strength, which has been on the sidelines since the end of World War II, will finally be unleashed in a bilateral alliance that will help cover what the United States sees as a strategic weak point in terms of its bandwidth for defense production capacity. The two nations would also be partnering on an integrated anti-missile defense system....

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