Japan, U.S., Australia to strengthen defense ties amid China

Japan, the United States and Australia will deepen their coordination over security strategy, their defense ministers said, apparently reflecting wariness over China's growing maritime assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region. During their talks in Hawaii on Saturday, the ministers also "strongly condemned" China's ballistic missile launches across the Taiwan Strait in…

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