PUBLISHED : 26 Jul 2024 at 14: 40 Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Laos’ Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith participatein the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at National Convention Center, in Vientiane, Laos on Friday. (Photo: Reuters) VIENTIANE – Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa concurred with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Friday to deepen security and financial cooperation, with China trying to strengthen its influence in close-by waters through a military accumulation. The contract inbetween Japan and Asean as Chinese coast guard ships haveactually been justrecently implicated of consistently engaging in aggressive activities near contested shoals in the resource-rich South China Sea. Tensions in the waters haveactually been intensifying, specifically giventhat Chinese vessels clashed with numerous Philippine inflatable boats in June, resulting in a Filipino soldier losing a finger.
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