US, Japan to Expand Presence Near China: Pentagon

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke by phone with Japan’s new minister of defense, Nakatani Gen, for the first time on Oct. 8, with both nations agreeing to expand their military presence around China amid increasing aggression from the Chinese

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