US Vows To Help Japan Defend Status Quo As China Air Defence Row Escalates -- The Guardian
Joe Biden stops short of calling on Beijing to rescind zone it imposed in dispute over Senkaku/Diaoyu islands
The US and Japan will work together to prevent any attempt by China to change the status quo in the Asia-Pacific region, the US vice-president, Joe Biden, has said, on a visit to north-east Asia.
His comments came at the start of a week-long trip that will be dominated by rising tensions between China and Japan over a territorial dispute.
Biden, who will visit Japan, China and South Korea, is seeking to avoid escalation in the dispute, which intensified late last month when Beijing imposed an air defence identification zone (Adiz)] in an area of the East China Sea that includes the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu islands in China – which Japan and China both lay claim to.
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