３カ国の防衛協力推進を確認　米比陸軍トップ級と初会談―陸自

　陸上自衛隊の吉田圭秀陸上幕僚長は１１日、米太平洋陸軍のフリン司令官やフィリピン陸軍のブラウナー司令官らと会談し、定期的な会合開催など防衛協力を進めることで一致した。陸自と米比陸軍のトップ級会談は初。海洋進出を強める中国をけん制する狙いがあるとみられる。
　会談は陸自朝霞駐屯地で行われ、米太平洋海兵隊と比海兵隊の司令官も参加した。こうした３カ国会談を毎年開くことや、日米、米比などの２国間訓練に、残る１国もオブザーバーを派遣することなどを決めたという。（2022/12/11-18:22）

Top-level officers of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force and the armies of the United States and the Philippines agreed on Sunday to promote defense cooperation such as holding talks on a regular basis.
   The meeting among Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of staff of the GSDF, Gen. Charles Flynn, commanding general of the U.S. Army Pacific, and Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner, commanding general of the Philippine Army, took place at the GSDF's Camp Asaka in eastern Japan.
   This was the first meeting among top-level officers of the GSDF and the U.S. and Philippine armies. The meeting, also joined by commanders of the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific and the Philippine Marine Corps, was apparently intended to keep a check on China, which has been increasing maritime activities.
   Participants agreed to hold a three-way meeting every year and confirmed that bilateral exercises will be joined by officials from the remaining country as observers.
   At a joint press conference after Sunday's meeting, Yoshida said that the enhancement of relations among the three countries will greatly help prevent attempts to change the status quo by force and protect the international order based on law.