US, Australia and Japan vow to work together against China


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The defense ministers of the United States, Australia, and Japan agreed Saturday to boost military cooperation in the face of China’s growing ambitions. “We are deeply concerned by China’s increasingly aggressive and bullying behavior in the Taiwan Strait, and elsewhere in the region,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said as he welcomed his counterparts from Australia and Japan to the US military headquarters for the Pacific region. “Our interest lies in the upholding of the global rules-based order. But we see that order under pressure in the Indo-Pacific as well, as China is seeking to shape the world around it...