Japan and Philippines to start negotiating on two defense treaty in front of China’s growing aggression

Manila: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Tuesday that his country and the Philippines would start negotiations on two proposed Defense Treaty to further promote their security alliance and will continue to fight aggression in disputed Asian waters in a clear rebellion of China.
The Japanese premiere also discussed the impact of the barrage of tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on the global economy and free trade system and discussed the Isaba and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Manila, Japanese Premier said at a news conference with Market after his talks.
Ishiba said that he would consult in the Philippines without explaining this in detail, where the presence of the major Japanese companies, “to work towards a better solution.” He flew to the Philippines after a visit to Vietnam, another South East Asian nation, which has caused a rapidly hostile confrontation with China’s Coast Guard, Navy and suspected militia forces in recent years.
China did not immediately comment on Ishiba’s comments. Beijing claims that virtually on the entire waterway, where it has increased the appearance of its Coast Guard and Nuns and built artificial island’s bases to strengthen its claims. Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have also been involved in long -lasting regional deadlock.
The Philippines, Market, said, “will continue its strong strategic partnership with Japan, which” shares our ideals and aspirations to maintain democratic institutions and rule-based international orders. “
In the eastern China Sea, China regularly sent coast guard ships and aircraft into water and airspace, which is claimed by the islands that surround the islands, which are claimed by both Tokyo and Beijing, to harass Japanese ships. This has inspired Japan to scrape the jet in many reaction.
“We unilaterally oppose any attempt to change the status quo through force or force in the seas of former and South China,” Ishiba said in a clear reprimand of China, although he did not name the country. “I hope that both our countries will continue to work together to realize an independent and open Indo-Pacific based on the rule of law.”
The defense treaty that begins negotiations on Japan and the Philippines will allow the provision of food, fuel and other requirements when the Japanese forces visited the Philippines for joint training under a major defense agreement signed last year and are expected to be confirmed by the Japanese legislature.
Other proposed agreements include highly confidential defense and military information protection that the country can share. The United States and the Philippines signed such an agreement in November to protect the exchange of highly confidential military intelligence and technology in major weapons that would provide to the US Manila.
During his conversation, Ishiba said that he and Marcos confirmed the importance of their tripartite alliance with the US.
The US has repeatedly warned China on its growing work of aggression in disputed water against Japan and the Philippines, which are among the hardcore treaty colleagues of Washington in Asia.
However, Trump’s tariff allegations on Japan and the Philippines between other countries around the world have created a strange dilemma among close security colleagues.
“US tariff measures have given a major blow to the economies of both Vietnam and the Philippines. In addition, Japanese companies expanding Japanese companies in these countries have had great impacts,” have been said over the weekend in Tokyo before the visit to Vietnam and the Philippines.
Japanese officials said they were scheduled to listen to their concerns with Japanese company officials in the Philippines.
After visiting a Japanese war memorial in Laguna province south of Manila, on Wednesday, Ishiba is scheduled to board the BRP Magabanua in Manila, one of the two largest patrol ships manufactured by Japan for the Philippine Coast Guard.
Magbanua is rapidly engaged in hostile faceoffs with the Chinese coast guard in the South China Sea and was damaged in a stressful encounter last year in the disputed Sabina Shole. The countries accused each other of provoking high sea conflict.
Japan has supplied a dozen patrol ships to the Philippines in recent years, using them extensively to protect its regional interest in the South China Sea. Japan plans to build at least five more patrol ships for the Philippines. It has also provided radar and other defense equipment for at least the Philippine Army.