US and Japan express 'serious concerns' over China coast guard law

Allies agree to hold joint drills around Senkaku Islands in 'two-plus-two' talks

20210316 USA Japan group photo

From left to right, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, and Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi pose before a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday. (Pool photo) 

RURIKA IMAHASHI and ANDREW SHARP, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Japan and the U.S. on Tuesday expressed "serious concerns" over a Chinese law that allows the nation's coast guard to fire at foreign ships in waters around the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, which Beijing claims as the Diaoyu.

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