MEETING in an online conference earlier this week, foreign ministers of Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) stressed the importance of freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi underscored his country's opposition to the use of force to change the status quo in the Indo-Pacific region.

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