Japan, Australia agree to boost relations amid China's military rise

Japan try to cooperate with Australia before, it just doesn't work.

https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/japan-offers-to-build-australias-50-billion-submarine-fleet-if-french-deal-falls-through/

https://www.reuters.com/article/australia-submarines-japan/japan-says-wants-australia-to-explain-why-its-submarine-bid-failed-idINT9N179008

Japan and Australia have a great relationship in many areas, not only militarily.

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook47p/AustraliaJapanRelations

https://www.rieti.go.jp/users/shiro-armstrong/serial/007.html

Yoko Kamikawa, who last week became Japan's first female foreign minister in around 20 years, and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong also confirmed the importance of bilateral cooperation on energy and resources, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.

Energy and resources is something that abounds in Australia, and Australia is one partner that is both reliable and able to secure Japans supply of these critical items. A good match.

Japan and Australia have an ability to create a deep symbiotic relationship that can help anchor peace and security in the Indo-Pacific, and trade stability. A perfect example for others to follow.

Australia and Japan may not be superpowers but their alignment as fellow democracies poses a major obstruction to the Chinese dictatorship's agenda of establishing regional dominance.

￥QUAD will bring Japan and Australia closer together, and they will need to prepare for a Chinese invasion.

Preparations for the TPP are progressing, and it is important that we continue to cooperate by leveraging each other's strengths as economic blocs.

Japan's export of submarines did not go well, but that is not a big problem. Given that the Australian president's wife at the time was Chinese, it was better that it didn't work out￥

Not sure what this does for us, but it looks good on paper I guess.

Japan's export of submarines did not go well, but that is not a big problem. Given that the Australian president's wife at the time was Chinese, it was better that it didn't work out￥

The "sale" of Japanese submarines to Australia had a number of issues and once the change of "Prime Minister" happened, Japan lost the close connection it had with the outgoing PM who was in favor of acquiring soryu class subs.

Australia does not have a President....yet. It may happen one day when it becomes a republic.