(VOVworld)- US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is on a tour of Japan and the Republic of Korea. This is Mr. Carter’s first overseas trip as Head of the Pentagon demonstrating the US’s defense priority with its allies and its commitment to the Pacific pivot. With the emergence of extreme Islamism in Iraq and Syria, the civil war in Yemen and Russia’s intervention into eastern Ukraine, the US realizes that it’s important to reaffirm its position in the Asia-Pacific region, hence Mr. Carter’s trip to Japan and the Republic of Korea end. When he was Deputy Defense Secretary from 2011 to 2013, Mr. Carter strongly supported the US’s pivot to Asia and cited the region’s importance to the US’s future. Before this trip, Carter called Asia the defining region for the US’s future despite ongoing national security concerns around the globe. Strengthening and modernizing ally relationships In Japan, Mr. Carter will discuss with Japanese leaders changes in the US-Japan defense cooperation guidelines, which would give the Japanese Self-Defense Forces more power in dealing with Asia’s security issues. Revising the defense guidelines for the first time since 1997 would mark an evolution in the US-Japan defense ties and help Prime Minister Shinzo… Read full this story
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