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Japan hopes to expand overseas security aid scheme in Asean, says senior official
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This is a “sea change” for Japan, which has long had a self-imposed ban on military equipment exports given its wartime history.
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TOKYO – The Philippines is set to be a beneficiary of Japan’s official security assistance (OSA) scheme
This underscores deepening security ties between the two American security allies, who are alarmed by an increasingly assertive China in regional waters. Their multidimensional defence partnership includes a reciprocal access agreement
