Japan's PM to talk threats from Russia and China in talks with Trudeau

Japan’s PM to talk threats from Russia and China in talks with Trudeau

ROBERT FIFE, OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF, The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA
PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-japans-pm-to-talk-threats-from-russia-and-china-in-talks-with-trudeau/

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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan says he will raise global security challenges, from the war in Ukraine to China’s aggression in the Indo-Pacific, while pushing to strengthen trade and energy ties in talks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday.

The Japanese leader is on a whirlwind tour of most Group of Seven countries, visiting Italy, France, Britain and Ottawa, before heading to Washington, the final stop on Friday. Mr. Kishida will play host to the annual summit of the G7 industrial powers in May at home in Hiroshima.

He told The Globe and Mail that the summit would maintain the G7′s commitment to helping Ukraine in its drive to repel Russian forces. It will also focus on security in the Indo-Pacific region under threat from China, which is using military and economic coercion to bully its neighbours and threaten maritime shipping lanes.

The Russian invasion has become a “turning point in history” and shaken the “international order to its core,” the Prime Minister said in a statement provided exclusively to The Globe and Mail on Wednesday.

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