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EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell met with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya in Tokyo as part of a tour of East Asia that includes South Korea, where he will also hold a strategic dialogue.<\/p>\n
The pact with Japan is the first security partnership that the EU has signed with an Indo-Pacific country, and reflects the bloc’s increasing engagement in the region as China and Russia ramp up joint military exercises and North Korea sends troops to Russia, Euro News reported.<\/p>\n
Borrell said the agreement was a “historical and very timely step given the situation in both of our regions”.<\/p>\n
Under the partnership, Japan and the EU said Europe and the Indo-Pacific region are \u201chighly interconnected and interdependent\u201d and agreed to hold a regular working-level security and defense dialogue and joint naval exercises, which will include other nations.<\/p>\n
They said they will also cooperate in cybersecurity and space defense, consider a possible intelligence sharing pact, promote exchanges of defense industry information and work together in nuclear disarmament efforts.<\/p>\n
As part of a new security strategy adopted in 2022, Japan been accelerating its military build-up through its alliance with the US \u2014 its only treaty ally \u2014 and other partners \u2014 including Australia, the UK and a number of European and Indo-Pacific countries.<\/p>\n
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