{"id":29501,"date":"2023-01-12T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29501"},"modified":"2023-01-12T03:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T03:42:03","slug":"u-s-and-japan-agree-to-step-up-security-cooperation-amid-china-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29501","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Japan agree to step up security cooperation amid China worries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON, Jan 11 &#8211; The United States and Japan on Wednesday announced stepped-up security cooperation in the face of shared worries about China, and Washington strongly endorsed a major military buildup Tokyo announced last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A joint statement issued after a meeting between their foreign and defense ministers in Washington said the two countries &#8220;provided a vision of a modernized Alliance postured to prevail in a new era of strategic competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We agree that the PRC is the greatest shared strategic challenge that we and our allies and partners face,&#8221; U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a joint news conference after the meeting, referring to the People&#8217;s Republic of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the briefing, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced plans to introduce a Marine Littoral Regiment in Japan, which would bring significant capabilities, including anti-ship missiles. Blinken said that two sides also agreed to extend the terms of their common defense treaty to cover space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: WASHINGTON, Jan 11 &#8211; The United States and Japan on Wednesday announced stepped-up security cooperation in the face of shared worries about China, and Washington strongly endorsed a major military buildup Tokyo announced last month. A joint statement issued after a meeting between their foreign and defense ministers in Washington said the two countries &#8220;provided a vision of a modernized Alliance postured to prevail in a new era of strategic competition.&#8221; &#8220;We agree that the PRC is the greatest shared strategic challenge that we and our allies and partners face,&#8221; U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a joint&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29503,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29501\/revisions\/29503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}