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Defense: London and Tokyo sign a "reciprocal access agreement" on Wednesday

2023-01-11T00:25:28.501Z


British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida sign an "access agreement...


British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida sign on Wednesday January 11 in London a

"reciprocal access agreement"

allowing the armies of each of the two countries to deploy on the territory of the other, against a background of ambitions growing Chinese in Asia-Pacific.

"After years of negotiations",

this agreement will seal

"the UK's commitment to security in the Indo-Pacific"

, Downing Street said in a statement.

The United Kingdom will thus become the first European country to have such an agreement with Japan, thanks to this defense treaty, the most important signed between the two countries for more than a century and the Anglo-Japanese alliance of 1902 against Russia.

The agreement should allow the two armies of the two countries to

"plan and implement more complex and larger-scale military exercises and deployments"

, according to Downing Street.

The head of the British government, who has distinguished himself by displaying a firm posture towards China, insisted on the need to cooperate in the face of the

"unprecedented global challenges of our time".

China, “unprecedented strategic challenge”

The United Kingdom and Japan are associated with Italy to develop a new generation combat aircraft by 2035. During his meeting with Fumio Kishida, Rishi Sunak also intends to discuss the negotiations for the United Kingdom's entry into the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Partnership (CPTPP), as well as Japan's G7 Presidency and assistance to Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion.

On tour in several G7 countries since Monday, Fumio Kishida first went to Paris, Rome, then, after London on Wednesday, is expected Thursday in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, before meeting US President Joe Biden on Friday in Washington.

China and Japan, the world's second and third-largest economies respectively, are important trading partners, but their relationship has deteriorated considerably in recent years, with Beijing displaying growing ambitions in the Asia-Pacific.

Japan, which has called China

an “unprecedented strategic challenge”

to its security, regularly complains about Chinese maritime activity around the Senkaku Islands, administered by Tokyo but which Beijing claims as Diaoyu.

Source: lefigaro

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