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Japan recently signed a landmark defense agreement with which country that allows closer cooperation between their militaries and stands as a rebuke to China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region?

Q: Answer-Japan recently signed a landmark defense agreement with which country that allows closer cooperation...

The leaders of Japan and Australia signed a landmark defense agreement that allows closer cooperation between their militaries and stands as a rebuke to Chinas growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in a virtual summit to sign the Reciprocal Access Agreement, the first such defense pact signed by Japan with any country other than the United States.