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Age of the Dragon: Japan is rapidly becoming a key defence partner

Bradley Perrett
Updated July 29 2021 - 9:25pm, first published July 23 2021 - 6:00am
Japanese soldiers in Australia during their first Talisman Sabre joint training exercise in 2019. Picture: Getty Images
Japanese soldiers in Australia during their first Talisman Sabre joint training exercise in 2019. Picture: Getty Images

Australia and Japan are in this together. We are both threatened by China, and both countries can see that the danger to their security would rise enormously if Taiwan were conquered.

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Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett is a regular ACM columnist with a focus on Australia's relationship with China, covering defence, strategy, trade, economics and domestic policy. He was based in Beijing as a journalist from 2004 to 2020.

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