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‘Japan’s significant efforts to enhance its defence capabilities are a powerful demonstration of our opposition to any attempt by any state to change the status quo’ | Kishi Nobuo #SLD22 go.iiss.org/SLD2022

‘Japan will continue to promote its Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision. It will continue to work with ASEAN to emphasise the importance of international law and norms’ | Kishi Nobuo #SLD22 go.iiss.org/SLD2022

‘Japan will continue to work with its Quad partners as part of its work towards the FOIP, as well as with other like-minded nations’ | Kishi Nobuo #SLD22 go.iiss.org/SLD2022

‘It is impossible to change the rules-based order by force’ | Kishi Nobuo #SLD22 go.iiss.org/SLD2022