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The Philippine President President Matskus visited Japan and held a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Kishita on February 9.The biggest focus of this talk is how to cope with the international order that violates rules -based based on the rules, and promotes the status quo in the East Asian waters with its strength.
In the South China Sea, China ignores the 2016 arbitration resolution that the Philippines has jurisdiction in 2016 and continues to pass the China Sea Police Station's ships to place the Philippines claiming to have sovereignty (China Huangyan Island) on the rule of rule.In the following, continue to make actions that damage the Philippines.In the East China Sea, China unilaterally claims sovereignty over Japan's inherent territory of the Territory Shougang (known as the Diaoyu Islands).Safety.
In this situation, Markus and Kishida shared the importance of "legal and open international order based on law" in the talks.FOIP) and Asianian and Asia's Aoip Pacific Outlook (AOIP) have the principle of essentialness.The two leaders expressed their "serious concerns" about the situation of the East China Sea and the South China Sea, emphasizing that "strong opposition to improving tensions including strength or compression".The heads of the two countries also reached an agreement on opposing the militaryization, compressive activities, and exercise of force in the South China Sea.
Japan and the Philippines agreed to promote specific cooperation in security guarantee to strengthen the rules -based free and open marine order.Regarding strengthening the relationship between the Self -Defense Force and the Philippine Army, it signed an agreement to simplify humanitarian support and disaster rescue activities of the Self -Defense Force in the Philippines.The two sides also negotiated with the Self -Defense Force and the Philippine military education and training interviews, and signed the mutual benefit access agreement (RAA).In addition, it is also confirmed that Japan will provide training and assistance to the people needed by the Philippines from Japan to introduce alert regulatory radar, and further study the plan for transfer equipment and technology to the Philippines.
Regarding the cooperation of marine security guarantee, it is confirmed that so far, Japan has provided the results of inspection vessels and education and training of players along the Philippine coastal police team.At the same time, it reached an agreement on the rectification of the base of the Philippine Police Team on the Philippine Bay and the Japanese support on the inspection vessel with a satellite communication system.In addition, the navigation of Chinese naval ships in Sulu Sea and Siribus Sea. In order to strengthen the maritime consciousness (MDA) capabilities and strengthen maritime law enforcement based on the United Nations Marine Law (UNCLOS), the importance of cooperation between the two countries has been confirmed.Essence
The summit of Japan and the Philippines this time will pave the way to strengthen the cooperation between Japan, the Philippines and the United States in order to contain China, which is trying to change the status quo of the ocean.Japan and the Philippines are all allies in the United States and are indispensable for U.S. military in East Asian activities.At the same time, Japan and the Philippines need to strengthen their cooperation with the US military in terms of military pressure against China.
Japan amended the national security strategy in December last year, and decided to fundamentally strengthen the defense capabilities, while further deepening cooperation with the US military.The Macata government has also proposed a policy of promoting cooperation with the U.S. military.When U.S. Defense Minister Austin visited the Philippines in February, according to the enhanced defense cooperation agreement (EDCA), the base that the U.S. military could use was increased from five to nine places.In this summit talks, Japan and the Philippines stated that they will further strengthen the cooperation between the three countries through the implementation of the three -party talks including the United States and the self -defense team to participate in the training between the United States and the Philippines.
Japan, the Philippines, and the United States to strengthen security cooperation are of great significance to maintaining peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.Japan and the Philippines are located in the north and south of Taiwan, respectively, forming the first island chain.It can be seen from the large -scale military exercises conducted by the People's Liberation Army around Taiwan last August that mainland China has strengthened military pressure on Taiwan.Strengthening security cooperation in Japan, Philippines, and the United States will help to curb the status quo of China in the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait.
In order to stabilize the relationship with China and pay attention to dialogue with China in order to protect the security of the country and promote dialogue with China at the same time, it is also important to cooperate with the security guarantee with the United States and Japan.For Japan and the United States aimed at achieving free and open India, further strengthening relations with the Philippines is still an important issue.
The author is Japan Institute of Defense
The Director of the United States and Russia and Russia of the Regional Research Department
