Australia to Join Missile Defence Pact With US and Japan

Published on April 11, 2024

Australia will move to strengthen military ties to counter a growing threat from Beijing in the Indo-Pacific by partnering with Japan and the United States to shore up a new air defence strategy. Details of just what technology the strategy will incorporate have not been shared with the media, owing to their classified status “Today we announce our vision to co-operate on a networked air defence architecture among the United States, Japan, and Australia to counter growing air and missile threats,” said U.S. President Joe Biden, who has been in talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, on April 10. Japan has been slated to join the second part of the AUKUS trilateral security pact between Australia, the UK, and the United States, which was first announced on Sept. 15, 2021....

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