LOOK: US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her delegation speak at a press conference at the US Embassy in Tokyo, Japan on Friday, August 5. 📸: Issei Kato/Reuters RELATED:
TOKYO, Japan – Japan and the United States agreed on Friday, August 5, to work together on maintaining peace in the increasingly tense Taiwan Strait, amid unprecedented military drills by China including five missiles that landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
Five missiles landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone , prompting Tokyo to lodge a strong protest through diplomatic channels. Japan, whose southernmost islands are closer to Taiwan than Tokyo, has warned that Chinese intimidation of Taiwan is an escalating national security threat. Tensions between Japan and China ramped up another notch on Thursday when China announced that a meeting between the two nations’ foreign ministers, set to take place on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting in Cambodia, had been called off due to its displeasure with a G7 statement urging Beijing to resolve Taiwan tension peacefully.
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