Japan and Vietnam on Tuesday inked an agreement to cooperate in space defense and cybersecurity, as the two Asian nations fleetly step up their military ties amid enterprises over China’s growing fierceness.
Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi told journalists that the space and cyberspace agreement aimed to address a” strong sense of urgency”over conditioning in the Indo-Pacific region that challenge the being transnational order, indicating China without relating any country by name.
Kishi said addresses with his Vietnamese counterpart, Phan Van Giang, had taken” defense cooperation between the two countries to a new position.”
Tokyo regularly protests the Chinese seacoast guard’s presence near the Japanese- controlled Senkaku islets, which China also claims and calls Diaoyu. Japanese officers say Chinese vessels routinely violate Japanese territorial waters around the islets, occasionally hanging fishing boats.
Kishi also said he raised enterprises over the recent escalation of common military conditioning by China and Russia near Japanese waters and airspace.
Kishi said a line of two Chinese H-6 fighters and two Russian Tu-95 flew from the Ocean of Japan to the East China Sea and to the Pacific Ocean, driving Japanese Tone- Defense Force spurts to scramble.
Chinese and Russian warplanes preliminarily flew together around Japan doubly in 2019, he added.
During the addresses, Kishi expressed Japan’s strong opposition to”any unilateral attempts to change the status quo by compulsion or any conditioning that escalate pressures,” pertaining to China’s decreasingly assertive exertion in the East and South China Sea.
Japan is committed to guarding a” free and popular”Indo-Pacific region and cooperating with the United States and other”like-inclined countries that partake universal values,”Kishi said.
Tuesday’s deal comes only two months after the two countries struck a deal allowing Japan to give defense outfit and technology to Vietnam.
Details of the transfer of specific outfit, conceivably nonmilitary vessels, are still being bandied.
Vietnam is the 11th nation with which Japan has inked a defense outfit and technology transfer deal as Tokyo seeks to support its own floundering defense assiduity.
Japan is also looking to expand military cooperation beyond its longtime supporter theU.S., and has inked analogous agreements with Britain, Australia, the Philippines and Indonesia.
