{"id":45833,"date":"2022-03-09T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45833"},"modified":"2022-03-09T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:37:02","slug":"assistant-secretary-of-state-for-east-asian-and-pacific-affairs-daniel-j-kritenbrinks-travel-to-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45833","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel J. Kritenbrink\u2019s Travel to Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03\/09\/2022 01:12 PM EST<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel J. Kritenbrink will travel to Tokyo, Japan from March 10-12.\u00a0 During his visit, Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Dr. Ely S. Ratner will co-chair the 2+2 Security Sub-Committee of the Security Consultative Committee with Director-General Ichikawa Keiichi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Director-General Masuda Kazuo, Ministry of Defense. \u00a0The senior leaders will discuss efforts to continue to modernize the U.S.-Japan Alliance and strengthen joint capabilities.\u00a0 Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink will reaffirm the United States\u2019 commitment to the Alliance as the cornerstone of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Assistant Secretary will confer with officials on further joint efforts to support Ukraine and its people and to hold Russia accountable for its brutal war against Ukraine.\u00a0 Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink and counterparts will underscore the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and discuss stepping up efforts to address the crisis in Burma.\u00a0 Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink will also emphasize the importance of bilateral and trilateral cooperation among the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea to promote peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/09\/2022 01:12 PM 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-45833","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\/45833","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=45833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45834,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45833\/revisions\/45834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}