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Japan Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will be in the country next week for an official visit aimed at bolstering Tokyo’s commitment to its strategic partnership with the Philippines amid an “increasingly complex security environment,” the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Friday.
Iwaya this week met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tokyo where they discussed China’s “dangerous and destabilizing behavior” in the South China Sea, including the repeated blocking and harassment of Philippine vessels from operating within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
Both officials said China’s behavior “threatens the freedoms of navigation and overflight of all nations.”
