history. of course, there s people doing the work at scunthorpe are very concerned about what it means for them. we ll be hearing from our correspondent nick garnett later on that story. china and japan are holding their first high level defence talks for four years. the talks are aimed at reducing tension between the world s second and third most powerful economies. beijing is concerned about tokyo s decision to double defence spending over the next five years. tokyo is worried about china s increasingly aggressive stance towards taiwan, and over disputed claims to islands in the south china sea. the japanese foreign affairs minister, shigeo yamada, says it s important to continue dialogue. translation: we are facing many challenges and issues as well as some opportunities in relations between japan and china. this is particularly in the field of security, including the situation surrounding the senkaku islands in the east china sea, the increased military activities by china in the
how has the change in focus affected the biden administration s foreign policy? i the biden administration s foreign oli ? ~ policy? i think the biden administration policy? i think the biden administration had - policy? i think the biden administration had a - policy? i think the biden i administration had a couple policy? i think the biden - administration had a couple of policy? i think the biden administration had a couple of goals when they came into office. the first was to focus on china in the indo pacific region and the second was to repair the relationship with europe that had been so badly damaged during the four years of tron s presidency. but as we have seen over the last year that is not what has happened with the russian invasion of ukraine. this administration s focus is very much shifted to notjust repairing the relationship with europe but showing unwavering support to native s eastern flank. we have seen that happen with biden s two trips to poland within one y
the threat from russian aggression much more keenly here than in other parts of the west. this is eastern europe, it s a country that knows all about the threat from russia historically, of course. and we in fact have recently been on the eastern border of poland where two farmers were killed when a missile that strayed over the borderfrom ukraine, thought to be a ukrainian missile on that occasion, killed two people in a field. they are increasing their security, increasing their defences. there are patriot missile systems on poland s eastern border. these are countries that want to feel that nato is united in protecting them against what they see as a very significant threat. a threat they ve been warning against for a very long time, but here we have a president biden meeting these nine leaders right on russia s doorstep? this will not go unnoticed by president putin? no, it won t. of course, president putin has been couching his invasion as a response to a threat from nato right fr
declare, well, what they re both interested in is peace and stability. now, this comes on the one year anniversary of the invasion of ukraine. also, the two are saying they don t want more of a move towards a cold war mentality. well, again, this comes as china is accused of already supplying this dual use technology for the russian war effort, equipment that could be used to repair russian fighterjets or scramble enemy communications. so, you know, china can say it s neutral in all of this and russia can speak about concepts like peace and not having a cold war, but the facts on the ground seem to conflict with these ideas quite drastically.