2023-06-04 03:04:00
The defense ministers of the three countries, the United States, Japan and Australia, raised their voices to strongly oppose China’s actions ignoring international law that destabilize the Indo-Pacific region.
At the same time, he also emphasized his will to strengthen defense cooperation, including trilateral military exercises to counter this.
Connect with reporters. Reporter Lee Jong-soo
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This is the International Department.
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Didn’t the defense ministers of the US, Japan and Australia raise their voices together once morest China ignoring international law?
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During the Shangri-La Dialogue at the Asian Security Conference held in Singapore, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada, and Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles held talks and warned China like that.
It is said that it strongly opposes China’s actions in disregard of international law, such as militarization of disputed territorial areas in the East China Sea and South China Sea, and obstruction of other countries’ exploration of marine resources.
Against this, a three-way training was conducted in Australia using the F-35 stealth aircraft,
The Japanese Self-Defense Forces stressed that they would strengthen defense cooperation across multiple areas, including regularly carrying out missions to defend US and Australian military assets.
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Prior to this, the defense ministers of the United States and China clashed over the Taiwan issue, right?
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“A conflict in the Taiwan Strait would have catastrophic and unimaginable impacts on the world economy,” said U.S. Secretary of Defense Austin in a speech at the Asian Security Conference. .
“The Taiwan issue is related to China’s core interests, and there is no compromise or concession,” said Jing Jianfeng, deputy chief of staff of the Central Military Commission’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, and immediately protested.
Let’s listen to the remarks of the US Secretary of Defense and the Vice Chief of Staff of the Chinese Armed Forces one following another.
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Didn’t the US-China defense ministers meeting, which attracted attention during the Asian Security Conference, collapse?
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A bilateral meeting between Defense Minister Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Li Sangfu broke down over differences over whether to lift US sanctions once morest Li.
As such, the US-China defense channel has been closed, but there is a movement to resume high-level dialogue in the US-China diplomatic channel.
Daniel Crittenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, will visit China to discuss key pending issues.
The re-promotion of US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln’s visit to China, which was canceled due to the Chinese reconnaissance balloon incident in February, is expected to be discussed once more.
Previously, President Biden said at a press conference following the summit of seven major countries in Fukushima, Japan on the 21st of last month, “I expect that the US-China relationship will soon be thawed.”
So far, I have been told by the International Department.
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