Reach far, see near

Right on the occasion of Australia, the US and Japan conducting the 14th trilateral dialogue and consultation on security, military and defense, Japan deployed its first soldiers on Australian territory.

These troops are not permanently present in Australia but are rotated every 6 months. This is a way for Australia and Japan to avoid being seen as having a military base on Australian territory.

The location is the Australian city of Darwin - where there are military, naval and air bases of strategic importance to the US and Australia. The fact that this place was chosen as the garrison location for Japanese soldiers also has political significance and a reconciliatory effect between Australia and Japan because during World War II, Darwin was fiercely attacked and heavily damaged by the Japanese air force and navy. Darwin is to Australia what Pearl Harbor is to the US.

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles

Representatives of the US, Australian and Japanese defense ministries said that Japanese soldiers began to be stationed on rotational bases in Australia to train in coordination with the Australian military and more than 2,000 US soldiers permanently stationed in the city. In name, that is true. But in reality, Japanese soldiers went so far because Japan had to prioritize looking closer and dealing with security and political challenges in the world coming from its near neighbors in the region.

Trilateral cooperation with the US and Australia in this field is one of the important and key links in the network of bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral and multilateral links in politics, security, military and defense that Japan strives to build with parties inside and outside the region to deal with challenges as well as create a position in the Indo-Pacific region.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/vuon-xa-nhin-gan-185241117203643703.htm