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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and French President Emmanuel Macron agree to initiate negotiations on a reciprocal access agreement so the two countries can facilitate closer defense cooperation such as joint exercises and disaster relief operations.
Japan is planning to begin talks with France on a new security agreement to facilitate joint exercises and disaster relief operations, government sources say.
The inauguration the Australia–United Kingdom–United States security partnership (AUKUS) on September 15, 2021, was greeted by a furious reaction from Paris. Once tempers cool, the U.S. and France should take new stock of their cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and reinvigorate it. Even as the U.S. expands its cooperation with Australia and the U.K., it should find parallel ways to do the same with France.