{"id":55855,"date":"2023-01-11T20:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T04:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55855"},"modified":"2023-01-12T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T17:09:54","slug":"secretary-blinkens-meeting-with-japanese-foreign-minister-hayashi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55855","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>01\/11\/2023 09:54 PM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa on the margins of the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee. Secretary Blinken and Foreign Minister Hayashi recognized the broad convergence of shared strategic interests as described in Japan\u2019s recent release of its National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy. They affirmed their unwavering support for Ukraine and discussed next steps for providing assistance to Ukraine\u2019s energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Blinken reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, including through the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. He underscored the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. Secretary Blinken greatly welcomed Japan\u2019s G7 presidency and leadership at the UN Security Council in 2023. He further lauded coordination on common priorities and shared global challenges through the U.S.-Japan Economic Policy Consultative Committee (\u201cEconomic 2+2\u201d or \u201cEPCC\u201d), welcoming the EPCC vice-ministerial in Washington on January 13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01\/11\/2023 09:54 PM EST &nbsp; Office&#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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55855","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=55855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55856,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55855\/revisions\/55856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}