Antony Blinken says China is ‘greatest shared strategic challenge’ in the region as US backs Japan’s biggest military build-up since second world war
“It’s very simple, we heartily welcome the new strategies especially because there is … a remarkable convergence between our strategy and strategies and Japan’s,” Blinken said.
Growing alarm over Chinese military activity near Taiwan, coupled with a flurry of ballistic missile tests byover the past year, have prompted a further shift from the strictly defensive posture Japan adopted after its defeat in 1945. The countries also agreed to create a “more agile” US marine unit based on the southern island of Okinawa that would be better placed to respond to emergencies around Japan’s south-west islands, which are located near“I think this is going to contribute in a major way in our effort to help defend Japan and also promote a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Austin said, adding that the unit, formed out of a reorganised existing regiment on Okinawa, would be in place by 2025.
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