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JAPAN and the Philippines are signing a key defense pact Monday that would allow the deployment of Japan ese forces for joint military exercises, including live-fire drills, to the Southeast Asian nation that came under brutal Japan ese occupation in World War II but is now building an alliance with Tokyo as they face an increasingly assertive China.
Japan and the Philippines, however, have steadily deepened defense and security ties.Kishida’s moves dovetail with Marcos’ effort to forge security alliances to bolster the Philippine military’s limited ability to defend Manila’s territorial interests in the South China Sea. The busy sea passage is a key global trade route which has been claimed virtually in its entirety by China but also contested in part by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.
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