The second-ranking diplomats of Japan and the United States held an inaugural meeting Thursday on infrastructure development cooperation in other countries, a move widely seen as linked to the two allies' efforts to counter China's inroads into Southeast Asia and elsewhere.The Diplomacy and Development Dialogue meeting in Washington was led by Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Masataka Okano and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, who discussed policy coordination related to emerging and developing countries in the so-called Global South.Okano and Campbell confirmed that the two natio…READ FULL ARTICLE
