TOKYO — Foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, Australia and India on Monday aired "serious concern" over the situation in the South China Sea in a veiled censure of Beijing.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts in the so-called Quad group issued a joint communiqué calling for a "free and open" Pacific after talks in Tokyo.

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