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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin hosted Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles, and Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii Saturday, as part of the Trilateral Defense Ministers’ Meeting (TDMM). This time, the TDMM, which last met in Singapore in June, took place right after US President Joe Biden released the Pacific Partnership Strategy for the Pacific Islands Forum, which stated that the “pressure and economic coercion by the People’s Republic of China” has led to the “undermining the peace, prosperity, and security of the region, and by extension,...
