In July, Germany, France, and Spain will send warships to Japan for joint naval exercises. In August, Italy will send the aircraft carrier Cavour to a Japanese port. To avoid angering China, the Cavour will not enter the Taiwan Strait, but will instead pass through the South China Sea. Not long ago, Italy reached an agreement with Japan and the UK to cooperate in researching and developing a new generation of fighter aircraft.
The convergence of interests between the parties promotes this cooperation and ensures its ever-strengthening nature. Tokyo increasingly prioritizes building and strengthening political relations, military cooperation, defense, and security, not just economic and trade relations, with EU and NATO members in Europe to expand its global political and security role. These moves by Japan are aimed at countering Russia, China, and North Korea.
Since Giorgia Meloni became Prime Minister of Italy, the country has adjusted its policy towards China and ceased participating in Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the G7 summit on June 13 in Italy.
Rome deliberately created an "Italy-Japan axis" to enhance Italy's role in Europe, within the EU and NATO, to counter Russia and China, and to reach out to the Indo- Pacific region. For Meloni, Tokyo is the ideal partner in the Indo-Pacific for Rome to achieve these interests and goals. These shared interests draw distant partners closer together.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/khi-doi-tac-xa-lien-thu-cung-nhat-ban-185240630212643175.htm
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