{"id":50704,"date":"2024-04-09T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50704"},"modified":"2024-04-09T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:43:14","slug":"aukus-partners-eye-japan-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50704","title":{"rendered":"AUKUS partners eye Japan cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia, Britain and the United States said on Tuesday they were &#8220;considering cooperating&#8221; with Japan on the AUKUS security pact, setting the scene as the US president prepares to meet his Japanese counterpart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, AUKUS partners said Japan&#8217;s &#8220;strengths&#8221; and close &#8220;partnerships&#8221; with the countries involved meant it was an obvious ally in the project, which is aimed at checking China&#8217;s rising military power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the inception of AUKUS, our nations have been clear in our intent to engage others in Pillar II projects,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>AUKUS was established in 2021 and has two main practical goals: Pillar I aims to provide Australia with a fleet of nuclear-powered attack submarines.<\/p>\n<p>Pillar II focuses on developing advanced warfighting capabilities such as artificial intelligence, undersea drones and hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s statement said in seeking future opportunities, the group would consider technological innovation, financing, industrial strengths, and the ability to adequately protect sensitive data and information.<\/p>\n<p>There have previously been concerns in Washington about Japan&#8217;s ability to protect and handle sensitive intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia, Britain and the United States said on Tuesday they were &#8220;considering cooperating&#8221; with Japan on the AUKUS security pact, setting the scene as the US president prepares to meet his Japanese counterpart. In a statement, AUKUS partners said Japan&#8217;s &#8220;strengths&#8221; and close &#8220;partnerships&#8221; with the countries involved meant it was an obvious ally in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-50704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-aukus-partners-eye-japan-cooperation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}