Calling Japan a 'cornerstone of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific,' US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says President Donald Trump's government will continue to work closely with its key Asian ally
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“We share a warrior ethos that defines our forces,” Hegseth told Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani at a meeting in Tokyo. “Japan is our indispensable partner in deterring communist Chinese military aggression,” including across the Taiwan Strait, he said. That change will place a combined operational commander in Japan, who would be a counterpart to the head of a joint operation command established by the Japan’s Self-Defense Forces last week.Hegseth’s praise of Japan contrasts with the criticism he leveled at European allies in February, telling them they should not assume the US presence there would last forever. Trump has complained that the bilateral defense treaty, in which Washington pledges to defend Tokyo, is not reciprocal.
Hegseth and Nakatani agreed to accelerate a plan to jointly produce beyond-visual-range air-to-air AMRAAM missiles and to consider collaborating on production of SM-6 surface-to-air defence missiles to help ease a shortage of munitions, Nakatani said.
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