Group of Seven top diplomats to meet in Japan to discuss security issues in Europe and the Indo-Pacific region amid the worrying backdrop of war in Ukraine
FILE: The security of Europe and that of the Indo-Pacific cannot be discussed separately - they are intertwined with each other, a Japanese foreign ministry official said.
China has in recent days held military drills around Taiwan, which it claims as its own, and has never renounced the use of force to bring the democratically-governed island under its control. Kishida visited Ukraine in March, at the same time China's President Xi Jinping was meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.The conflict there has triggered a rare outpouring of support for Ukraine in pacifist Japan, with many Japanese seeing Russia's attack as highlighting the potential threat to nearby Taiwan from an increasingly assertive China.
It will be doubly important for the G7 to reaffirm its solidarity and support Ukraine given the doubts over Europe's stance towards China after Macron cautioned against being drawn into any crisis over Taiwan, Brown said.
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