Japan has important role in warding off collision course between US and China: expert panel

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi noted that history is dotted with plagues that have overturned the power balance.- AFP

TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): Japan can play a key role in staving off a potential collision course between the two superpowers United States and China, experts told a geopolitical forum on Friday (Feb 26).

Japan can set the agenda, as a close security ally of the US and a close neighbour of China's, they said at the second Tokyo Global Dialogue held by the Japan Institute of International Affairs think-tank.