Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi noted that history is dotted with plagues that have overturned the power balance.- AFP
TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): Japan can play a key role in staving off a potential collision course between the two superpowers United States and China, experts told a geopolitical forum on Friday (Feb 26).
Japan can set the agenda, as a close security ally of the US and a close neighbour of China s, they said at the second Tokyo Global Dialogue held by the Japan Institute of International Affairs think-tank.
The experts noted that the idea of strategic competition and cooperation at the same time is inherently contradictory .
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