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and off they go back home
RAAF ASY325 Airbus KC-30A departs JBA west
>>10108715 pb US and Australia propose 'network of alliances' to curb China
>The topic of China dominated the "two plus two" dialogue, where U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper hosted Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defense Minister Linda Reynolds. Their gathering in Washington was the 30th edition of the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations, or AUSMIN.
F35LTNG heading back to Nellis with F35LTNG2 continuing it's high speed runs off SoCal Coast
Fitch Revises Down Japan’s Long-Term Outlook to Negative
Fitch Ratings revised down the outlook on Japan’s sovereign rating to negative from stable while keeping the rating unchanged, following a similar move last month by S&P Global Ratings. “The coronavirus pandemic has caused a sharp economic contraction in Japan, despite the country’s early success in containing the virus,” Fitch said in a statement Wednesday. “Sharply wider fiscal deficits in 2020 and 2021, as we project, will add significantly to Japan’s public debt, which even before the pandemic was the highest among Fitch-rated sovereigns as a share of GDP.” The credit ratings firm affirmed Japan’s rating of A for long-term debt. But the company sounded alarms over recently rising Covid-19 case numbers in Japan, and the possibility of further containment measures and risks to the economic outlook. Tokyo saw a new daily record in cases last week, prompting the capital’s governor, Yuriko Koike, to ask residents to stay home over last week’s long holiday weekend.
Japan has pushed up its tally of economic measures to combat the virus impact to around $2 trillion, roughly 40% of the size of its economy. Fitch projects Japan’s economy to contract by 5% for the full year in 2020, before rebounding to 3.2% growth next year. But the firm didn’t expect GDP to return to pre-pandemic levels until the fourth quarter of 2021.
The ratings report had little impact on the yen, which was trading at around 105.10 per dollar Wednesday morning in Tokyo.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/fitch-revises-down-japan-s-long-term-outlook-to-negative
Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces COBBY61 KC-767J tanker nw of Okinawa-usually not this far southwest from mainland Japan
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