Japan vows to build international opposition to any change of status quo by force

Washington – Overseas Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi mentioned Friday he’ll work “tenaciously” to construct a broader world consensus to oppose makes an attempt to alter the established order by power within the wake of Russia’s warfare in Ukraine, warning that the “logic of brute power” is gaining traction within the Indo-Pacific.

“Russia’s aggression must go down in historical past as a transparent failure, in any other case it’s inevitable that different international locations will observe Russia and try to alter the established order by power,” Hayashi mentioned at a assume tank occasion throughout his first go to to the U.S. capital since assuming the international minister’s portfolio in November.