The United States will create a new military command in Japan, which will coordinate military operations and exercises, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“The United States will create a new military command in Japan,” The Wall Street Journal said in a publication.
According to the newspaper, the new command will be created against the backdrop of “China’s military buildup.”
It is expected that the command will coordinate military operations with Japanese forces, plan joint exercises and participate in the defence of the country in the event of war.
The initiative will be announced during a meeting between US State Department chief Anthony Blinken, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Japanese Defence Minister Minoru Kihara on July 28.
The Wall Street Journal pointed out that this move will allow Washington to withdraw its forces from the Indo-Pacific Command, headquartered in Hawaii, located more than 5.6 thousand kilometres from Japan.
Recall, earlier a former adviser to the Secretary of Defence in the administration of former US President Donald Trump, retired Colonel Douglas McGregor said that over the past twenty years, aggressive foreign policy has been detrimental to the United States itself.
