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Beijing said other countries should not “stir up trouble”, a day before Japan and Australia sign a defence treaty amid concerns over China’s influence in the region. The Reciprocal Access Agreement will for the first time set out a framework for the two countries’ defence forces to cooperate with each other in addressing their “shared strategic security challenges”, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a statement on Wednesday. The pact will be signed during a virtual summit on Thursday, after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cancelled a trip to Australia due to a surge in Covid-19 cases in Japan....
