Japan’s ambassador to Australia has revealed that he is very optimistic that Japan will soon join the Five Eyes Alliance, and that Japan is making preparations to join the Five Eyes Alliance. Australian defense and security experts believe that Japan understands the Chinese Communist Party best and that its participation is a useful addition to the Five Eyes Alliance. According to media reports, the Communist Party’s expansion of force in the South and East China Seas and human rights abuses in the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Xinjiang, as well as its poor performance during the global pandemic, have led to the creation of the Six-Eyed Alliance.
Japan and the Five-Eyed Alliance countries share concerns about Beijing
In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Japanese Ambassador to Australia Shingo Yamama, who was the head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Intelligence and Analysis Bureau, said Japan is preparing to join the Five Eyes alliance and “we would like to see this ideal become a reality in the near future,” according to the British Times on Wednesday (April 21). he said.
Shingo Yamagami told The Sydney Morning Herald that Japan is building cooperative relationships with the intelligence communities of Australia and other Five Eyes Alliance countries as Japanese politicians and officials become increasingly aware of its importance. Sharing intelligence signifies that these countries share universal values and strategic interests.
Shingo Yamagami also made it clear that Japan and the six countries of the Five Eyes Alliance all see Beijing as a strategic adversary. He said he is “very optimistic” that the Five Eyes Alliance will become the Six Eyes Alliance “in the near future.
Rory Medcalf, dean of the Australian National University’s (ANU) School of National Security, told the Sydney Morning Herald that Japan knows China best, and that the country’s ability to “gather and assess large amounts of intelligence” would be a useful addition to the Five Eyes Alliance.
He added that the Five Eyes alliance is able to continue sharing top-level classified intelligence because they actually trust each other enough to share some of the most sensitive information. He suggested that a “Five Eyes” plus “One” alliance would be a more pragmatic approach until Japan is eventually fully admitted to the Five Eyes Alliance, thus formalizing the Six Eyes Alliance.
Epidemic heightens fears of dependence on Beijing for strategic supplies, as Chinese Communist challenge spawns “Six Eyes Alliance”
As early as late July 2020, then-Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono expressed Japan’s desire to join the “Five Eyes Alliance” at a video conference convened by the UK’s China Research Group. The “five-eyed alliance” is the sixth eye. Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee, welcomed Taro Kono’s “six-eyed alliance.
In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review in August 2020, Taro Kono said Japan would be happy to expand its intelligence-sharing cooperation with the Five Eyes Alliance because “as the defense minister responsible for Japan’s security, I have to say that I am concerned about China (Communist) country’s activities in the East China Sea and South China Sea are of great concern to me.”
After condemning the actions of the Chinese Communist Party in the East China Sea and South China Sea, as well as on the Sino-Indian border and in Hong Kong, he noted that the international consensus is that the Chinese Communist Party should “pay a high price” for these actions. He also said that Japan and the Five Eyes Alliance “are countries that share common values, and Japan can almost be called the ‘sixth eye'”.
Politicians from the Five Eyes Alliance countries, including the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, have welcomed Japan’s proposal for a six-eye alliance.
In October 2020, Taro Kono, who began his term as minister of administrative reform in the Kan administration in September 2020, said again that Japan looked forward to strengthening cooperation with the Five Eyes Alliance and turning it into a Six Eyes Alliance in the future to counter the threat from China.
In a speech at a video seminar, he criticized the Chinese Communist Party’s military expansion. He said China’s military spending has increased 44-fold over the past 30 years …… He argued that China is attempting to change the status quo in a one-sided way and that it is important for the international community to unite and think about how to respond.
A global pandemic of the Chinese Communist Party virus has reportedly heightened the Five Eyes Coalition’s concerns about its dependence on Beijing for strategic supplies. The Communist Party’s concealment of the epidemic, its predatory buying spree of anti-epidemic and anti-epidemic medical and health supplies around the world, and its “mask diplomacy” have caused the world to take a fresh look at the Communist Party. According to U.S.-based political economist Qin Peng, there has been a trend for countries to review their over-dependence on China, and the pandemic has awakened them to the fact that many key strategic supplies are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
In light of the emerging crisis and in the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s challenge, in addition to intelligence, the Five Eyes Alliance plans to expand cooperation in military and strategic economics, sharing strategic reserve resources such as key minerals including rare earths and medical supplies to reduce dependence on Beijing, which makes Japan’s importance in the Five Eyes Alliance even more prominent.
Japan’s Public Statement on Taiwan Strait Confronts Chinese Communist Challenges, Demonstrating Strong U.S.-Japan Alliance
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga became the first foreign head of state to meet face-to-face at the White House since Biden became president, underscoring the primacy of the U.S.-Japan alliance.
In a joint statement issued after the meeting, the two sides reaffirmed the Japan-U.S. alliance as the core of security in the Indo-Pacific region and vowed to build a “free and open Indo-Pacific future.
The talks and joint statement covered almost all of the “sensitive issues” in the Indo-Pacific region: security in the Diaoyu Islands, the South China Sea and human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, and even mentioned the Taiwan Strait and the future of international industrial chains and high-tech competition, among other issues.
Kan directly named the Chinese Communist Party’s threats to the South and East China Seas, and also stated on the Taiwan Strait that “Japan and the United States have long agreed on the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, and this meeting reaffirmed (that agreement).”
The U.S.-Japan joint statement was widely commented on as a clear statement that Japan is taking the side of the United States. Veteran current affairs commentator Tang Jingyuan also noted that Biden’s meeting with Kan “was actually a declaratory meeting in which the U.S. asked Japan to publicly take sides on the Taiwan Strait issue, and became a litmus test for Japan’s true attitude toward the CCP, the U.S. and Taiwan.”
After the U.S.-Japan summit meeting, the Japanese flag was raised at the entrance and exit of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association in Taipei, which had not been flown by Japan for fear of the Chinese Communist Party.
Current affairs observers believe that Japan’s clear attitude has accelerated the process of joining the U.S.-led “Five Eyes Alliance”.
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