Japan to export used destroyers to Philippines to deter China, Yomiuri reports
Tokyo (Reuters) -japan said in a statement on Sunday, as the two US allies increase the cooperation of Beijing against Beijing, to export the Navy Office used to the Philippines to strengthen China’s deterrence against sea expansion.
The export plan includes Japanese Daily’s six ABUKUMA Class Muhrip escort, which has been serving by Japanese maritime self -defense for more than thirty years by referring to more than one unnamed government source.
Defense ministers Gen Nakatani and Gilberto Teodoro, when they met in Singapore last month, they accepted the export of the office, Yomiuri said that the Philippine army prepared to examine the destroyers this summer as a part of the final preparations.
A Japanese Defense Department spokesman refused to comment on the report. A Philippine Military Spokesman and the Chinese Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comments.
Tokyo and Manila, Beijing, the Philippines for the South China Sea and Japan, including the East China Sea, including the more ambitious movements of the waters, he says.
Bilateral military cooperation contained common exercises, a Japanese radar aid package and a high -level strategic dialogue. Last year, the first for Japan in Asia, the first, signed a mutual access agreement that allowed forces to be deployed in the land of each other.
Yomiuri said that Tokyo will discuss the installation of equipment and communication systems requested by Manila as a common development project to clean the export restrictions of the resuctives under Pacific duties of Japan.
According to the Japanese navy website, the Abukuma Class, a relatively small reservation with a 2,000-ton standard displacement, is operated by a crew of approximately 120 people and equipped with anti-Submarin and anti-ship missiles, torpedo tubes and weapons.
The Philippine Navy has no resuces, only frigates and corvettes, which are just smaller and lighter armed ships.
(Reporting by Kantaro Komiya in Tokyo; Additional reports by Karen Lema in Manila and Ryan Woo in Beijing; regulation by William Mallard)
