Japan is watching anxiously after Australian leader Tony Abbott, one of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s closest allies in the Asia-Pacific region, was ousted in a party leadership vote this week.
At stake is not only a multibillion-dollar deal to build submarines, but also U.S. and Japanese plans to work more closely with Australia in providing a bulwark against an increasingly belligerent China.
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