Japan is holding a foreign ministers’ meeting with Central Asian countries and organizing air combat training with India in the near future, in the latest move to step up its involvement in the “Indo-Pacific” and beyond, with the aim of containing China and Russia since it rolled out one of the strongest military build-up plans since World War II last week.
Tokyo will hold talks with foreign ministers of five Central Asian countries on Saturday to discuss multilateral cooperation and pressing issues of the day, including the Ukraine crisis and the situation in Afghanistan, Japan’s Foreign Ministry announced, noting that Japan and Central Asia are “partners that maintain and strengthen the international order based on the rule of law under the current severe international circumstances.”
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