Fukuda has dropped Abe’s talk about an “arch of freedom” – an effort to forge a bloc with the United States, Australia, and India. But Japan remains concerned about China’s rapidly modernizing military, while China worries about a potential US-Japan containment strategy for China, especially in the case of a crisis in the Taiwan Straits.
De modo que, aunque las dos partes apoyan la idea de una “relación estratégica mutuamente benéfica” y pese a los avances bilaterales en materia de intercambios militares, todavía falta mucho para que exista confianza mutua.