By Tahir Mirza
WASHINGTON. June 2: Two senior US foreign policy and defence officials are reported to have told a visiting delegation of Japan’s ruling coalition parties on Friday that Washington views China as the biggest security concern for the United States in Asia and urged Japan to work closely on security issues.
According to the Japanese Kyodo news agency, Taku Yamasaki, secretary-general of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), said US Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage outlined the US concern in separate meetings with the three secretaries-general of the ruling Japanese coalition.
The three have been in Washington since Wednesday for talks with senior Bush administration officials.
