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The New American-led Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific: Binding Japan and Australia, containing China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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When Prime Ministers Abe Shinzo and John Howard signed Japan's first comprehensive security agreement in half a century, and its only one apart from the treaty with the United States, the two countries raised five crucial foreign policy signals, and fundamentally securitised the relationship between the two countries.

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[1] Australia - Japan Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation, 13 March 2007.

[2] Desmond Ball, Whither the Japan-Australia security relationship? Austral Policy Forum 06-32A 21 September 2006.

[3] RI, Japan to Increase Defence Co-operation, Jakarta Post 2007-03-13