Canberra: US, Australia and Japan, along with eight other countries, have started joint training in Australia and its closest waters as boiling tensions in the Indo Pacific region.
The US and Australia began a two-year exercise of Saber’s talisman on Wednesday, Nikkei Asia reported.
Defense forces from Japan, England, Canada, South Korea and New Zealand will also take part in training, while India, Indonesia, Germany and France will participate as observers.
“This exercise will further strengthen our cooperation towards Indo-Pacific which is free and open,” Secretary of the Japanese Cabinet Katsunobu Katsato told reporters on Thursday.
The US, Japan, India and Australia have promoted orders based on the rules in the region through a quadratic security dialogue, or Quad.
Japan sent self-defense force units that specialized in remote defenses and served with the initial response to the possibility of the Nansei Islands, which included a Japanese-managed senkakus claimed by China as Dioayu.
GSDF will participate in our joint landing exercises and the British marines and the Australian Royal Army.
“Amphibious maneuver is very important to defend the Nansei Islands, which is one of Japan’s Japanese defense priorities,” said Yoshida GSDF GSDF staff.
“Loading our tactical skills will strengthen our defense skills.” Drill comes at an international focus growing in Indo Pacific.
Tensions also increase in the Taiwan Strait.
The Japanese Defense Ministry called Taiwan’s situation one of the top challenges, said it had to “pay attention to the” Taiwan Strait “with more crisis than before,” in white paper this week.
Meanwhile, Chinese surveillance boats began to sail to Australian waters ahead of training, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
“We have monitored his approach to Australia for several days as part of a broader Australian supervision effort,” Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton said about the ship.
The Indo Pacific region is largely seen as an area consisting of the Indian Ocean and West and Central Pacific Ocean, including the South China Sea.
Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea and its efforts to advance to the Indian Ocean seen have challenged the rules-based system set.
The Taiwanese Strait is a 180 kilometer strait that separates the Island of Taiwan and Asia continental.
This is one of the most diled water pieces in the world.
But the Strait is in international waters, China claims Taiwan as its own territory and considers the presence of the US Navy in the area as a performance of support for the democratic government of the island.
11 countries participated in massive US-Australian military exercises as increased tensions in the Indo Pacific
