Just as Australia, the US and Japan are holding the 14th Trilateral Dialogue and Consultation on Security, Military and Defense, Japan is deploying its first troops on Australian soil.
These troops are not permanently present in Australia but are rotated every 6 months. This is a way for Australia and Japan to avoid being seen as having a military base on Australian territory.
The location is the Australian city of Darwin - home to military, naval and air bases of strategic importance to the US and Australia. The choice of this place as a garrison for Japanese soldiers also has political significance and a reconciliatory effect between Australia and Japan because during World War II, Darwin was heavily attacked and destroyed by the Japanese air force and navy. Darwin is to Australia what Pearl Harbor is to the US.
Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles
Representatives of the US, Australian and Japanese defence ministries said that Japanese soldiers have begun to be stationed on rotational basis in Australia to train in coordination with the Australian army and more than 2,000 US soldiers permanently stationed in the city. In name, that is true. But in reality, Japanese soldiers have come so far because Japan has to prioritize looking closer and dealing with the security and political challenges of the world coming from its immediate neighbourhood in the region.
Trilateral cooperation with the US and Australia in this field is one of the important and key links in the network of bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral and multilateral links in politics, security, military and defense that Japan strives to build with parties inside and outside the region to deal with challenges as well as create a position in the Indo-Pacific region.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/vuon-xa-nhin-gan-185241117203643703.htm
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