Japan's PM Suga and his wife Mariko Suga before leaving Vietnam. The husband and wife arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday (Oct 20) afternoon. - AP
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrived on Tuesday in Indonesia on the second leg of his first overseas trip as premier to underscore his government’s aims of countering China in the region.
Suga arrived from Vietnam in the middle of a four-day visit to the two South-East Asia nations he said was key to pursuing the "free and open Indo-Pacific” vision of economic and security cooperation to counter China’s growing power and its assertiveness in disputes with other governments over the South China Sea.
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