Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida - whose country holds the G7 presidency this year - warned that "East Asia could be the next Ukraine".

At the end of his G7 tour, Kishida said he had alerted the leaders of the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada that he "feels very strongly that a strong security crisis threatens East Asia."

The Japanese prime minister visited all the G7 member states in one week except Germany due to a scheduling problem, but he intends to go to Berlin soon.

Kishida concluded his tour with a visit to Washington, where he agreed with US President Joe Biden to strengthen the alliance between the two countries, taking into account Chinese tendencies aimed at increasingly dominating, he said.

A joint US-Japanese statement after a summit between Kishida and Biden stated that the alliance of the two countries will remain a cornerstone for maintaining security and peace in the Indian and Pacific oceans, and the two parties expressed their opposition to any unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force.

It was great welcoming my friend Prime Minister Kishida for his first visit to Washington while in office.



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"The situation around Japan is increasingly dangerous, between attempts to forcibly change the status quo in the East China Sea and South China Sea and North Korea's nuclear activities and missile launches," Kishida said during a press conference in Washington.

The Japanese prime minister's tour came about 3 weeks after Japan made the biggest adjustment to its defense policy since the end of World War II, and approved a new defense policy document that considers China a strategic challenge and describes Russia as a source of concern for its national security.

It is noteworthy that Tokyo and Beijing are at odds over islands located in the East China Sea, and these islands are called "Senkaku" in Japan and "Diaoyu" in China, as well as growing tensions over the Taiwan Strait.