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20-05-2022, 08:33 AM
Finbarr Bermingham in Brussels
Published: 7:30pm, 12 May, 2022
The European Union and Japan pledged to “deepen exchanges on China” at a summit in Tokyo on Thursday that linked Russia’s war on Ukraine with the perceived threat posed by Beijing in the Indo-Pacific.
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Japan is one of a few Indo-Pacific countries to have been in lockstep with the West on imposing biting sanctions against Moscow, and has redirected some of its own natural gas imports to help Europe wean itself off Russian energy.
“We will continue to provide coordinated political, financial, material and humanitarian support to Ukraine. We recognise that Russia’s illegal aggression against Ukraine shakes the rules-based international order and generates economic disruption globally, affecting partners around the world,” they said in a long joint statement.
But underlying almost everything in the statement and subsequent press conferences was China.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomac...k-together
Published: 7:30pm, 12 May, 2022
The European Union and Japan pledged to “deepen exchanges on China” at a summit in Tokyo on Thursday that linked Russia’s war on Ukraine with the perceived threat posed by Beijing in the Indo-Pacific.
......
Japan is one of a few Indo-Pacific countries to have been in lockstep with the West on imposing biting sanctions against Moscow, and has redirected some of its own natural gas imports to help Europe wean itself off Russian energy.
“We will continue to provide coordinated political, financial, material and humanitarian support to Ukraine. We recognise that Russia’s illegal aggression against Ukraine shakes the rules-based international order and generates economic disruption globally, affecting partners around the world,” they said in a long joint statement.
But underlying almost everything in the statement and subsequent press conferences was China.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomac...k-together
