Japan, while maintaining the Japan-US alliance as the cornerstone of its foreign policy, will also place importance on ASEAN as the hub for regional cooperation, support the association’s unity, and work together with its member countries and with Australia in building a twenty-first-century order for East Asia and the Asia-Pacific. And our country will engage with China to encourage it to fulfill its international responsibilities. This is the diplomatic orientation revealed by Prime Minister Abe through his visit to Southeast Asia.
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