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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pose with Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Japan's Defense Minister Minoru Kihara at the start of the"Foreign and Defense Ministerial Meeting" at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on July 28, 2024.
China’s “destabilizing actions in this region include unsafe encounters at sea and in the air, efforts to disrupt other countries’ offshore resources exploitation, as well as the dangerous use of Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels,” the communique added. They accused China of “intensifying attempts to unilaterally change the status quo by force or coercion in the East China Sea” and that Chinese “foreign policy seeks to reshape the international order for its own benefit at the expense of others.”
The statement also “highlighted with concern Russia’s growing and provocative strategic military cooperation with the PRC, including through joint operations and drills in the vicinity of Japan, and the PRC’s support for Russia’s defense industrial base.”
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