{"id":711,"date":"2026-05-01T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/7b30759974c7990a24e4ff397ccf7cea"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"japans-pm-urges-albanese-to-deepen-ties-as-china-risks-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s PM urges Albanese to deepen ties as China risks rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/japans-pm-urges-albanese-to-deepen-ties-as-china-risks-rise.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has called on Canberra and Tokyo to deepen defence and critical mineral ties, as the two countries move to counter China\u2019s growing economic and military reach across the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi will meet Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra on Monday, the latest in a string of high-profile visits \u2013 including by Canada\u2019s Mark Carney and the European Union\u2019s Ursula von der Leyen \u2013 as Australia deepens engagement with like-minded middle powers amid rising geopolitical uncertainty driven by the Trump administration and China\u2019s increasing assertiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has called on Canberra and Tokyo to deepen defence and critical mineral ties, as the two countries move to counter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}