Posted on 04/06/2014 1:22:28 PM PDT by Dundee
AUSTRALIA will deepen its security alliance with Japan in a new agreement to share military technology as Tony Abbott moves to strengthen the relationship beyond an imminent deal to boost trade.
The defence agreement opens the way for Australian access to advanced systems that could greatly increase the power of a new submarine fleet while saving billions of dollars.
The agreement will be announced in Tokyo today as the Prime Minister also finalises a trade deal that will cut the price of Japanese cars, and increase exports of Australian beef and dairy products.
Mr Abbott will highlight the security alliance by becoming the first foreign leader to attend a meeting of Japan’s national security council, the cabinet group set up by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in an assertion of his foreign policy ambitions.
In another sign of the tighter links, today’s talks will be followed within weeks by a visit to Australia by Japan’s Defence Minister, Nobuteru Ishihara...
“If it’s all right for the US, the UK and Israel and France and Germany and China to export arms, why is it wrong for Japan?” Mr Abbott said...
Australia has expressed great interest in Japan’s submarine technology, including a diesel-electric propulsion system regarded as the best of its kind in the world...
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
They don’t trust us and suspect we’re in a permanent state of decline.
Can you blame them? Just look at the President, the Congress and what is passed off as American culture. Who could respect or admire any of it?
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