Top Defense and State Dept. Officials Will Travel to Japan and Korea

Top Defense and State Dept. Officials Will Travel to Japan and Korea
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks about priorities for the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden in the Ben Franklin room at the State Department in Washington, on March 3, 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will meet with officials in Japan and South Korea in March in an effort to advance the Biden administration’s Indo-pacific strategy, against the backdrop of an increasingly hostile China.

Austin will join Blinken on March 16–17, in Japan for the U.S./Japan Security Consultative Committee hosted by Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi and Minister of Defense Nobuo Kishi, to strengthen the two countries’ cooperation in an effort to keep “peace and security in a free and open Indo-Pacific in the face of long-term competition with China.”

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