Is the Australia-Japan military agreement a message from the Western alliance to China?
Across the Pacific region, the world’s new power centre, tensions have been increasing between the Western alliance and China in recent years.
Japanese and Australian leaders hailed the agreement as a great achievement to secure their common interests in the Pacific. On the other side of the Pacific, China displayed stoicism in the face of the deal between Tokyo and Sydney. “The Pacific Ocean is vast enough for the common development of countries in the region,”Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on Wednesday, in classic Chinese diplomatic language.
“State-to-state exchanges and cooperation should be conducive to enhancing mutual understanding and trust among countries in the region and safeguarding regional peace and stability, rather than targeting or undermining the interests of any third party,” Wenbin said.The strategic rise of the PacificFor centuries, the Mediterranean had been a central location for the fight for political and economic supremacy, from the Romans to the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
As a result, the Australia-Japan deal appears to be the latest link in the anti-China chain of the Western alliance in the Pacific. It is also an attempt to strengthen the Quad, a strategic dialogue between the US, India, Japan and Australia as a response to China’s assertive presence in the Pacific region.
are produced in the Indo-Pacific region, which also represents 60 percent of the world’s population. The Australia-Japan deal is also an interesting development in terms of Japan’s non-military status. The Japanese constitution’s Article 9 prohibits the country from operating a military force.
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