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132 CHAPTER FIVE: POSITIONING DEFENCE FOR TOMORROW’S CHALLENGES North Asia 5.59 Japan is a major power in North Asia with advanced military forces and an increasingly active approach to regional security. Australia and Japan have a deep and broad relationship. We share democratic values, have been close economic partners for decades and more recently we have become close strategic partners. We each have alliances with the United States and we have common strategic interests in secure and free-flowing trade routes, a stable Indo-Pacific region and a rules-based global order. We welcome the Japanese Government’s recent decision to adopt policies that will enable it to contribute more directly to regional and global security and stability. SECTION TWO CAPABILITY 5.60 Australia has a growing security relationship with Japan. In recent years we have signed treaty-level agreements on cooperation in defence science and technology, information sharing and logistics support. These agreements provide the basis for further developing our defence cooperation based on the 2007 Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation. 5.61 Australia and Japan are implementing a broad range of initiatives to further enhance practical defence cooperation. These initiatives will strengthen defence cooperation in a number of areas including: increased training and exercises between all three Services, increased personnel exchanges, deepening cooperation on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, maritime security, peacekeeping, capacity building and increasing trilateral cooperation with our common ally the United States. We will enhance strategic dialogue between Australia and Japan, which includes joint Defence and Foreign Affairs 2+2 dialogue held at Ministerial level, as well as senior officials’ level dialogue. We will continue to explore opportunities to expand cooperation with Japan in areas such as intelligence, developing common capabilities like the Joint Strike Fighter, air and missile defence and maritime warfare technologies.
International defence relationships 133 5.62 To underpin our growing cooperation, we will work towards an agreement with Japan that improves our administrative, policy, and legal procedures to facilitate joint operations and exercises. 5.63 We will continue to expand trilateral defence cooperation between Australia, Japan, and the United States for our mutual benefit. This includes practical trilateral activities such as the Southern Jackeroo exercise and strategic dialogue including the Security and Defence Cooperation Forum. 5.64 China has a central role to play in contributing to the peace and stability of North Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Australia and China have built a productive defence relationship based on our annual Australia‐China Defence Strategic Dialogue, working-level exchanges, strategic policy discussions, practical exercises, maritime engagement and peacekeeping. Our cooperation in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Southern Indian Ocean reinforced the practical benefit of our defence cooperation. 5.65 The Government is committed to continuing the development of Australia’s defence relations with China, and working to enhance mutual understanding, facilitate transparency and build trust. We will do this through increased personnel exchanges, military exercises, and other practical cooperation in areas of mutual interest, such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and countering piracy. We will continue to build on the positive outcomes of Exercise Kowari, the Australia‐China‐United States military exercise first held in the Northern Territory in October 2014. A second iteration of Exercise Kowari was held in August and September 2015. SECTION TWO CAPABILITY 5.66 Australia and the Republic of Korea have had shared interests in regional security since the Korean War. The April 2014 bilateral Vision Statement for a Secure, Peaceful and Prosperous Future highlights our shared intention to further develop our patterns of bilateral exercises and 2016 DEFENCE WHITE PAPER
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