TOKYO -- The U.S. and Japan are leading efforts to expand a multilateral security cooperation framework, with their defense ministers to meet Australian and Philippine counterparts this weekend in Singapore, Japanese officials told Nikkei.
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U.S., Japan push to expand multilateral security framework
Defense chiefs to meet Australian, Philippine counterparts for four-way talks
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada in Tokyo on June 1. © Reuters
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