{"id":32371,"date":"2021-03-04T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32371"},"modified":"2021-03-04T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:28:16","slug":"united-states-and-japan-hold-bilateral-security-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32371","title":{"rendered":"United States and Japan Hold Bilateral Security Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03\/04\/2021 09:14 AM EST<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Japan held bilateral security discussions\u00a0by video teleconference\u00a0on March 4, 2021.\u202f\u00a0These discussions provided\u00a0an opportunity for our two governments to\u00a0demonstrate the strength and\u00a0continued\u00a0resilience of the U.S.-Japan Alliance.\u00a0\u00a0Participants\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>exchanged\u00a0views on the Indo-Pacific security environment, including the impact of COVID-19, as well as regional issues and bilateral defense cooperation.\u202f Both sides\u00a0reiterated their strong opposition to unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion in the East and South China Seas, exchanging views and sharing their deep concerns over\u00a0the PRC\u2019s Coast Guard Law.\u00a0\u00a0They\u00a0confirmed their continued close coordination to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific, enhance\u00a0deterrence and\u00a0response capabilities, and bolster the U.S.-Japan Alliance, which is stronger than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Japan and Korea Marc Knapper\u00a0and\u00a0Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia Security Mary Beth Morgan\u00a0represented the\u00a0government of the\u00a0United States.\u00a0\u00a0Deputy Director General for North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yutaka Arima and Deputy Director General for Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense, Taro Yamato\u00a0represented\u00a0the government of\u00a0Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/04\/2021 09:14 AM EST Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32372,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32371\/revisions\/32372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}