AUKUS countries mull possibility of joint defence projects with Japan
Joe Biden and Fumio Kishida said in a joint statement that Australia, the US and Japan plan to cooperate in creating a networked air defence architecture.
Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, which make up the AUKUS military alliance, are looking into the possibility of cooperating with Japan on the issue of defence technologies, US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in a joint statement.
The document, released after their meeting in Washington, says Australia, the US and Japan plan to cooperate in creating a networked air defence architecture. Moreover, based on Tokyo’s “close bilateral defence partnerships with the AUKUS countries,” the three members “are considering cooperation with Japan on AUKUS Pillar II advanced capability projects.”
Also, the statement says the United States, South Korea and Japan made progress on holding joint annual exercises. Also, Biden and Kishida welcomed the decision to hold regular trilateral US-UK-Japanese exercises starting from 2025.
The AUKUS is a security partnership basically formed after everyone realized that Quad cannot be a military bloc as India would not permit this to happen .
So AUKUS was established between the governments of Australia, the US and the US, established in September, 2021, for implementation of a number of defence initiatives in two areas, called components.
The first one implies the provision of a fleet of nuclear attack submarines to Australia. The second one is connected with the joint development of military equipment in eight areas, which include submarine systems, quantum technologies, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, cybersecurity and electronic warfare, hypersonic aircraft and interception means, as well as innovations and technologies of exchange of information.
