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NATO and Japan to cooperate in 16 areas, align defense equipment​

Kishida set to announce new cooperation document at Vilnius summit

TOKYO -- NATO and Japan have concluded negotiations over a new cooperation document and are preparing to announce the pillars at the Vilnius Summit next week, Nikkei Asia has learned.

The Individually Tailored Partnership Program (ITPP) consists of 16 cooperation areas with three strategic goals: to strengthen dialogue, enhance interoperability and bolster resilience, according to European and Japanese sources.

One of the cooperation areas is for NATO forces and Japan's Self-Defense Forces to improve capability development and interoperability. The document will say that Japan and NATO will "effectively cooperate in the area of capability and interoperability development, as well as standardization."

These measures are aimed at creating a common understanding of each other's assets and expanding the scope of joint drills.

If Japan can adopt many of NATO's standards for its defense equipment, this could lead to maintenance and repairs at each other's shipyards and aircraft hangars. NATO itself faces challenges related to interoperability among its own members, however, such as technological disparities between forces, doctrinal differences and resource gaps.

NATO has also concluded an ITPP with Australia and is formulating them with South Korea and New Zealand, although it is not clear if the latter two documents will be ready by the summit to be held next Tuesday and Wednesday.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will attend the Vilnius summit, making it the second consecutive year for the leaders of the Indo-Pacific partners (IP4) to be present at a NATO leader's meeting.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's declaration of a "no limits" friendship with Moscow have given rise to the perception that trans-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security are deeply interconnected.
NATO members are discussing opening a liaison office in Tokyo, which would serve as a station to implement the ITPPs of the IP4.

The ITPP seeks to make tangible progress in the 2023-2026 period. Other areas of cooperation include maritime security, cyber, hybrid threats, outer space, climate change as well as emerging and disruptive technologies (EDT).

EDT includes artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and quantum technologies, which will change future battlefields.

Japan and NATO will begin discussions on establishing rules for autonomous weapons systems -- otherwise known as killer robots.

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Bellum_Romanum

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KYli said:
I don't think this is that big of a problem. Before the pandemic, tens of thousands of Chinese illegal immigrants got smuggled to the US or a few EU nations for making money. It isn't something new. A decade ago, people from Fujian would pay tens of thousands to smuggle to the US. People from Wenzhou would go to EU or the US working for their relatives. As much as China has grow prosper, hardworking people can still earn a few times more in the US than in China through hard labor that require working 6 days a week and 12 hours a day.

There are hundreds of thousands of mainland Chinese that are working and living in the African and Latin American and many of them operate supermarkets in these countries. Chinese are all over the world and trying to get rich and taking risk and difficult jobs or risky business ventures. Many of them are not legal residents in these countries.

The only difference this time is that Douyin has instructed and inspired a bunch of naivete and morons to try their luck through this new way of traveling to the US. There are 3 main groups of people that took this journey. Political dissenters that want to leave China no matter what. Naive people that blindly believing that they could get rich easily in the US, and traditional illegal immigrants that take this route to save money.

The first group even if they can't stand the living standards in the US won't return to China due to the political reason. The second group has mostly returned to China. The third group is hardworking people that have expected the hardship and came here to make good money and their staying or returning depending on circumstance and opportunity.

Relative to its population, illegal Chinese immigrants are small number compare with many other countries. The reason there is so much coverage of this topic is solely to embarrass and humiliate the Chinese government and China.

I have posted a few articles about how two 50 plus years old couple that left their relative comfortable jobs in China and traveled to the US and couldn't face the hardship and fled from the US only DAYS after arrival. There was a young construction worker that was inspired by Douyin fairy tale and quit his job thinking he has little to lose but found out that living in the US is even difficult for people like him and left after a month. People are much more stupid than you think.
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KYli said:
The first group even if they can't stand the living standards in the US won't return to China due to the political reason
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These people want to vote or have themselves be elected in order to effect their desired political outcome?
 
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KYli said:
Oh please, another attempt by you to spread nonsense. The truth is 80% to 90% of mainland Chinese went back to China after getting their degrees or getting some jobs experience which is totally different from a decade or two ago when many of them would stay and work in the US and going back isn't an option.

Your refusal to accept this simple fact causing you to argue otherwise. Geopolitical tensions, racism and glass ceiling and even crimes all have great impact on why so many returned. It is not to say that there is anything wrong for many who decide to stay and raise their family in the West. But your attempt to belittle China and those returnees are unfair and unjustified and despicable. You made your choice and they made their.
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You guys are fighting a hopeless battle against trolls. Eventually human ones like him will be AI psyop bots. This is why this naive forum policy of not banning trolls is so dangerous.
 
56860

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CMP said:
You guys are fighting a hopeless battle against trolls. Eventually human ones like him will be AI psyop bots. This is why this naive forum policy of not banning trolls is so dangerous.
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Most trolls eventually do get banned but only after derailing pages and pages of productive discussion. By that point, they've achieved their objective and are happy to be banned. They then spend 5 mins changing IP addresses and rinse and repeat.

In extreme cases, trolls are allowed to soil the quality of discussion for literal decades before finally getting hit with the banhammer.
 
tygyg1111

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horse said:
Well, his articles are little more comical lately.

The hold on to reality is becoming more tenuous, so his articles are more nervous, and a little bit on the shrill side.

Everyone of his recent articles is either like a mild panic attack, or devoid of reality.

His time has come.

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Entering full Gordon Chang mode soon, thanks to his sleeper cell trigger conditioning
 
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