'It is very useful giving radars to the Philippines because it means we could share information about the Bashi Channel,' says retired admiral Katsutoshi Kawano.
, including radars, that the officials said would help the Philippines plug defensive gaps.
US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, will meet in Tokyo on Friday with his counterparts from Japan and the Philippines, Takeo Akiba and Eduardo Año, for the first in a series of regular meetings to discuss security cooperation.The scope of Japanese military aid is limited by a self-imposed ban on lethal equipment exports.
Kawano and the government officials who spoke to Reuters predicted Manila could give Japan access to its military bases, as it does with the United States, allowing Japanese SDF aircraft to patrol the South China Sea. Japan can monitor waters east of Taiwan from Yonaguni island, about 100 kilometers away.
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