WASHINGTON — Following U.S. Defense Secret Pete Hegseth’s trip to the Philippines and Japan, Tokyo should seek to deepen relations with Manila and invest in the nine milit bases the Philippines allows the U.S. milit to access, Keio University professor Ken Jimbo told Nikkei Asia.
“The U.S. is shifting from a hub-and-spoke model of bilateral relationships to a network of alliances, under which allies combine capabilities to strengthen deterrence,” Jimbo said on the sidelines of the Trilateral Commission meeting held in Washington over the weekend. Jimbo has served as an adviser to the Japanese Defense Ministry and the National Security Secretariat.
