The top foreign and defense officials of Japan and the United States agreed Wednesday that China's growing power poses the "greatest strategic challenge" in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, vowing to reinforce deterrence as well as expand the scope of their security treaty into space.In the face of serious security threats, also from North Korea and Russia, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada along with their U.S. counterparts Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin agreed to modernize and optimize the countries' alliance at a so-called two-plus-two m…READ FULL ARTICLE
