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Significant part of meeting likely devoted to streamlining respective military bureaucracies for prompt response in event of conflict with Beijing.
The Financial Times said that the plans could amount to the “biggest upgrade” to the bilateral alliance since the signing of the mutual defense treaty more than 60 years ago
Joe Biden and Fumio Kishida are to announce the move to counter China at a White House meeting next month.
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The move does not represent a pull-back from Tokyo’s war drive, but is designed to deflect domestic tensions outwards while pursing Japanese imperialism’s interests on the Korean Peninsula.