Manoj Joshi:
The recent United States (US)-Australia “2+2” meeting, also known as the AUSMIN, has taken the decision to invite Japan “to integrate into our force posture initiatives”. It is layered on the hub-and-spoke architecture of the US alliance system in the Asia-Pacific (aka Indo-Pacific) and the manner in which this system is giving way to a new networked security architecture in the Indo-Pacific, helmed largely by the US. This also caps a development initiated by the Australia-Japan Security Declaration of 2007 and the 2021 creation of AUKUS, the Australia-UK-US military alliance.
An Indo-Pacific security network is only now emerging | ORF (orfonline.org)
