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Japan and US upgrade military ties citing threat from China as ‘greatest strategic challenge’
Japanese and US defense chiefs, as well as top diplomats, agreed to further bolster their military cooperation by upgrading the command and control of US forces in the east Asian country and strengthening American-licensed missile production there, …