‘Operation Supercharge’: Japan and U.S. agree to develop Japanese missile facility—a ‘strong, quiet and clear’ message against China’s naval activity
Source: Fortune ·
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi made the announcement in a news conference where he met U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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The United States and Japan have agreed to establish a Japanese facility for the joint production of advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, the Japanese defense chief said. It is the latest move by the allies, which have repeatedly expressed alarm over China’s growing assertiveness in Asia. Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi made the announcement in a news conference Wednesday night in the central Philippine province of Cebu, where he met U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the sidelines of an annual meeting of Southeast Asian defense chiefs and their major Asian and Western counterparts. Koizumi renews concern over China’s naval activity Koizumi raised concern Thursday about China’s increasing naval activity in southwestern Japan. He said that three Chinese destroyers and a coast guard ship together crossed the Osumi Strait south of the southern main island of Kyushu and headed east to the Pacific Ocean this week. It was the first such fleet configuration his ministry…