{"id":1450269,"date":"2022-04-22T12:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450269"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:57:00","slug":"japan-and-new-zealand-boost-defense-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-and-new-zealand-boost-defense-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan and New Zealand Boost Defense Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjapan-and-new-zealand-boost-defense-cooperation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-new-zealand\">New Zealand<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-japan\">Japan<\/a> agreed Thursday to strengthen defense cooperation and initiate formal negotiations toward an information-sharing pact as the world faces \u201cunprecedented challenges\u201d from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russia\">Russia<\/a>-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with visiting New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for the first time on Thursday since his election last year.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/joint-statement-japan-and-aotearoa-new%C2%A0zealand-strategic-cooperative-partnership-common\">joint statement<\/a> issued after the talks, the two leaders said they agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas like political ties, defense and security, as well as trade and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>They also agreed to commence negotiations on an information-sharing agreement to enable closer engagement on international security issues.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern described Japan as one of New Zealand\u2019s \u201cmost important partners in the Indo-Pacific region,\u201d with which it shares common values and approaches to the challenges facing the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJapan and New Zealand will work together to support economic recovery from COVID-19, combat climate change, promote peace and stability in our region and uphold the global rules-based order,\u201d she said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/prime-minister-has-productive-meeting-prime-minister-japan\">statement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kishida and Ardern strongly condemned Russia\u2019s illegal aggression against Ukraine, saying it constituted \u201ca serious threat\u201d to the rules-based international order, with ramifications far beyond Europe and the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>They demanded an immediate withdrawal of Moscow\u2019s forces in Ukraine and vowed to continue implementing economic sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Their talks also covered the East and South <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> Seas, where Beijing has increased its military presence. The two leaders said they strongly opposed unilateral actions that seek to alter the status quo by force and escalate tensions in the disputed seas.<\/p>\n<p>Both leaders reaffirmed the importance of resolving maritime disputes in accordance with international law, calling on relevant parties to adhere to the final and legally binding July 2016 Arbitral Award on the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Kishida said that Japan and New Zealand \u201cwill not tolerate any attempts to alter the status quo by force and oppose them in the East and South China seas or any other regions,\u201d Japan\u2019s media Kyodo News <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2022\/04\/e209942da805-japan-nz-leaders-vow-to-defend-intl-order-shaken-by-invasion.html\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan and New Zealand also pledged to cooperate in supporting the Pacific island nations\u2019 security and resilience, and condemned North Korea\u2019s ongoing development of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes on the heels of the Solomon Islands and China officially signing a security treaty that will allow Beijing to station armed police and troops on the Pacific island.<\/p>\n<p>On April 18, the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-raises-concern-as-solomon-islands-officially-ink-vague-deals-with-china_4415217.html\">convened a meeting<\/a> with officials of Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, during which they expressed concerns about the Solomon-China deal. The White House said that Washington was concerned by the lack of transparency and \u201cunspecified nature\u201d of the agreement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-aldgra-fredly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Aldgra Fredly\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aldgra Fredly is a freelance writer based in Malaysia, covering Asia Pacific news for The Epoch Times. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand and Japan agreed Thursday to strengthen defense cooperation and initiate formal negotiations toward an information-sharing pact as the world faces \u201cunprecedented challenges\u201d from the Russia-Ukraine war.Japan\u2019s Prime Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1894216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}