Japan, Britain to launch ministerial dialogue on economic security

Japan and Britain agreed Monday to launch a new framework for dialogue between their economic and foreign ministers to discuss trade, economic security and other shared challenges, amid prospects that their close ally, the United States, will take steps to curb free trade under its next president Donald Trump.The agreement was reached at a meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the margins of the Group of 20 summit in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro, the Japanese government said.The economic version of the "two-plus-two" ministerial framewo…READ FULL ARTICLE