Japanese Foreign Minister Hagazi Yosimas and his US counterpart Anthony Blinken Friday negotiated defense relations between Japan and the United States.
Hagasi told reporters after the conversation that Washington remains committed to protecting Japan, for example, regarding the Senkaku Islands.
China also claims the uninhabited Japanese-dominated archipelago near Okinawa, and Tokyo regularly protests the Chinese Coast Guard’s proximity to the islands.
During the conversation, the foreign minister added, they agreed on the importance of stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Japan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the parties strongly condemn any unilateral changes by China to the status quo in the East and South China Seas, and will take joint measures on China.
China also considers Taiwan, which has had its own government since 1949, as part of its territory. So Beijing protested in October that it said US Navy ships had “repeatedly displayed their forces” in the Taiwan Strait recently, sending “bad messages” to the island’s independence forces and threatening “peace and stability” in the region. MTI.
