With eyes on China, US and Japan vow new security collaboration

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U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised a "new era" of U.S.-Japan strategic cooperation on Wednesday, laying out a series of projects from co-development of missiles to manned moon landings, while condemning China's escalatory behavior in the region. The two sides said a planned upgrade of their military command-and-control frameworks would enable greater interoperability and planning in peacetime and during conflicts. The defense plans will see the two sides establish a forum on defense industrial cooperation that would identify areas for co-development and co-production of missiles and maintenance of U.S. warships and aircraft, the statement said. They will also establish a working group for fighter pilot training, including AI and advanced simulators, and co-development and co-production of jet trainers. The leaders announced a shared goal for a Japanese national to be the first non-American to land on the moon in an Artemis mission. The joint statement said the existing three partners in the AUKUS defense project were considering cooperation with Japan on advanced capabilities and technologies across a range of areas including quantum computing, undersea, hypersonic, artificial intelligence and cyber technology.

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