{"id":46884,"date":"2022-07-30T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T01:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/30\/japan-china-logic-of-brute-force-indo-pacific"},"modified":"2022-07-30T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T01:25:13","slug":"logic-of-brute-force-is-rising-in-indo-pacific-says-japan-amid-china-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46884","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Logic of brute force\u2019 is rising in Indo-Pacific, says Japan amid China concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s foreign minister tells Washington audience world at \u2018historical crossroads\u2019 and that Russian invasion of Ukraine must not succeed<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, has sounded the alarm about China\u2019s behaviour in the Indo-Pacific during a visit to Washington, saying the \u201clogic of brute force\u201d was gaining more traction over the rule of law in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Chinese and Russian joint bomber flights near Japan in May, Hayashi said stronger military coordination between China and Russia was emerging as a security concern. \u201cWe are currently standing at a historical crossroads, one fraught with a sense of crisis,\u201d he told the Centre for Strategic and International Studies thinktank on Friday. \u201cWe are facing a watershed moment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/30\/japan-china-logic-of-brute-force-indo-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s foreign minister tells Washington audience world at \u2018historical crossroads\u2019 and that Russian invasion of Ukraine must not succeedJapan\u2019s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, has sounded the alarm about China\u2019s behaviour in the Indo-Pacific duri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,88,419,535,74,930,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-russia","category-south-china-sea","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46887,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884\/revisions\/46887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}