JAPAN and India on Monday launched their first joint fighter jet exercise, a move analysts said exposed the two countries' growing military ambitions against China under the instigation of the US.

The 11-day Veer Guardian-23 aerial maneuvers are scheduled to run until January 26 in the airspace around the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri and Iruma air bases in Ibaraki Prefecture, the Japan Times reported on Monday.

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