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Japan bolsters Indo-Pacific defense, creating containment arc around China

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Japan is bolstering its defense capabilities and forging new security partnerships, creating a potential containment arc around China in the Indo-Pacific. Recent exercises like Keen Sword 27, involving US forces and new Japanese missile systems, have demonstrated this evolving regional security framework. These actions, coupled with agreements with Australia and India on missile testing and maritime security, suggest Japan is building an autonomous network as US attention is divided. AI

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Japan bolsters Indo-Pacific defense, creating containment arc around China

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Wenran Jiang ·

    China’s new nightmare: a Japanese containment arc in the Indo-Pacific

    Just weeks after US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked their countries’ World War II alliance at the White House, Keen Sword 27 turned symbolism into hardware. The 11-day exercise, which wrapped up on October 29, deployed US Marine NMESIS anti-ship la…

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