Les États-Unis et le Japon ont affiché mercredi leur “alignement stratégique” en matière de défense qui s’étend jusque dans l’espace, face aux inquiétudes croissantes vis-à-vis de la Chine et des tensions autour de Taïwan et la Corée from North.
“We agree that China poses the most important strategic challenge” for the two countries, said the head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, after a meeting in Washington with his Japanese counterpart, Yoshimasa Hayashi, as well as with the US and japanese. defense chiefs.
In a joint press conference, Antony Blinken assured that the United States “warmly welcomes” the new Japanese defense posture and clarified that the security and defense agreement between the two countries also applies to space.
Strengthen Japan’s defense
For his part, US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin announced the deployment by 2025 of a rapid reaction force of marines to the Japanese island of Okinawa to bolster the defense of Japan, which is concerned about increasing Chinese activities in the region.
“We are going to replace an artillery regiment with this force that will be more lethal and more mobile,” Lloyd Austin said during this press conference.
He said the force “will make a great contribution to improving Japan’s defense and promoting a free and open Indo-Pacific,” the term commonly used in the United States to refer to the Asia-Pacific without Chinese domination.
More than half of the approximately 50,000 US troops present in the archipelago are stationed on the island of Okinawa.
Source: BFM TV
