Amy King comments on Kishida’s meetings with G7 Partners
Credit: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
I recently spoke with Bloomberg reporters, Isabel Reynolds and Ben Westcott, as well as Agence France Presse, on Japan’s recent push to diversify and deepen security ties with Australia, the UK and other G7 countries.
I explained that Kishida’s meetings with G7 partners last month are evidence of Japan’s desire to normalise its “role as a great power” and to develop "the kinds of strategic partnerships and defence relationships that are quite normal for other countries, but which have been largely off-limits to Japan” due to its pacifist constitution. Such moves have also become more critical for Japan as it seeks to “insur[e] itself against a decline in US capacity” by “diversifying the partners with whom it acts”.
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