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Japan will defend Taiwan if China tries to use force, says ex-US official ANI | Updated: Jun 03, 2021 09:48 IST
Washington [US], June 3 (ANI): Former US deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger has said that Japan would step up militarily to defend Taiwan if China moved to reunify the island with its mainland by force.
In a panel discussion on Tuesday with other top Trump administration officials, Pottinger said Japan first suggested a quadrilateral alliance with the US, India and Australia - now known as the Quad - as a defence strategy against China, according to South China Morning Post (SCMP). Some of the key pillars of our strategy in the Indo-Pacific region were ideas that we borrowed and adapted and shared and collaborated on with Japan, he said.