The rise of China is a "threat" to the Indo-Pacific region, Latvia's Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins said recently while calling for deeper cooperation between Japan and Europe to protect the international order.While Beijing steps up military pressure on Taiwan, a territory it regards as a renegade province to be unified with the mainland, Karins said in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Belgium there is a danger China will attempt to change the status quo by force, which he labeled as "not acceptable."The former prime minister of Latvia remarked on his nation's "long-standing good c…READ FULL ARTICLE