US will propose dual-use shipbuilding to Japan, navy chief says To counter China, allies should explore 'all options' to boost capacity, Phelan says

So the new Secretary of the Navy seems to be taking a page from the @ashjain50.bsky.social / @matthewkroenig.bsky.social playbook about leveraging partner capacity within the #democratic_community for shipbuilding. Interview from @kenmoriyasu.bsky.social … asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Def...

NATO Plans to Share Classified Military Information With Industry, EU NATO has started a process to share some of its highly classified capability targets — which determine what kind of weapons and equipment member countries need to produce — with the defense industry, ...

But this reflects the evolution towards the larger #democratic_community that informed the idea of the Democratic Economic and Trade Partnership that @MatthewKroenig and @ashjain50 helped to develop. 2/
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Having a robust maritime capacity centered across the #democratic_community will be critical … another reason for a #DTEP approach per @ashjain50.bsky.social & @matthewkroenig.bsky.social …

Seeing these investments--a reminder that the #democratic_community must find ways to have investment and technology cross borders in order to be able to compete with China, per advice given by @ashjain50.bsky.social and @matthewkroenig.bsky.social ... #DTEP

Samsung C&T/Kärnfull Next MOU (Korea-Sweden) on small modular nuclear reactors is going to have to become the norm: #democratic_community members forging trans-Atlantic/trans-Pacific partnerships for energy and tech advancement.

The Ash Jain vision of a cohesive #democratic_community cannot leverage its preponderance of raw power (which collectively outclasses China) if integrative efforts are derailed by complaints about tax dollars spent in Sweden or Korea or defense euros going to Alabama.

Nikolas Gvosdev on LinkedIn: #democratic_community #autocratic_entente #democratic_community The heart of the #democratic_community approach as Ash Jain has laid out is to promote greater integration and alignment among the countries that benefit from…

If we want to see @ashjain50.bsky.social #democratic_community, we need to accept that capabilities are distributed among different components and that only in partnership is the #autocratic_entente matched.
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The problem is that U.S. recovery has come not at the expense of our #autocratic_entente challengers but our allies redistributing growth within the #democratic_community but not appreciably increasing its share of global GDP. @ulrichspeck.bsky.social
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Capital Park Partners on LinkedIn: #alliesandpartners #freeandopen #capitalparkpartners An Italian aircraft carrier is calling on Japan's Yokosuka naval base, and Japanese officials will get underway to observe Italian F-35B operations. This…

This is part of the deepening of the #democratic_community across regional lines (to connect Indo-Pacifc and Euro-Atlantic cores) and also occurring directly between European and Asian partners without the constant midwifing of Washington. www.linkedin.com/posts/capita...