Daily Memo: Air Drills and Diplomacy Around East Asia

Washington and Beijing pledged to explore new areas of cooperation while managing existing differences.

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Drills and meetings. The United States, Japan and South Korea held joint air drills over international waters near South Korea’s Jeju Island. The exercises involved at least one U.S. B-52 bomber, along with South Korean KF-16 and Japanese F-2 fighter jets. Separately, at a meeting of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations […]

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