(From left) Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi at a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday, April 9, 2022. - AFP
TOKYO, April 9 (The Straits Times/ANN): Japan and the Philippines vowed closer military cooperation via more complex, high-level joint exercises and intelligence sharing on Saturday (April 9), voicing “serious concern” over tensions in the East and South China Seas.
Their first meeting under the “two-plus-two” arrangement, involving their foreign and defence ministers, came amid heightened concerns over the war in Ukraine and the potential spillover effect in regional waters.
