The United States and Japan will hold talks between their foreign and defense ministers about strengthening their security alliance in the face of communist China’s growing military threats, Japan’s government said on Jan. 6.
Japan’s Minister of Defense Yasukazu Hamada and Minister of Foreign Affairs Yoshimasa Hayashi will meet with their U.S. counterparts, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Washington on Jan. 11.
They will discuss security challenges based on their respective national strategic documents and the direction of their defense cooperation to achieve a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” Japan’s defense ministry said in a statement on Friday….