The defense ministers of Japan and three other Indo-Pacific countries agreed at their first meeting with their NATO counterparts on Thursday in Brussels to boost cooperation, amid China's growing military assertiveness and Russia's protracted invasion of Ukraine.Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani called on the NATO ministers and his counterparts from Australia, New Zealand and South Korea to expand coordinated efforts against unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion."The war in Ukraine has shown that instability in Europe can have far reaching consequences acros…READ FULL ARTICLE
