{"id":11593,"date":"2021-01-22T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118835\/tokyo-seeks-us-vow-support-east-china-sea-dispute-beijing-heats"},"modified":"2021-01-22T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:00:25","slug":"tokyo-seeks-us-vow-of-support-in-east-china-sea-as-dispute-with-beijing-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/tokyo-seeks-us-vow-of-support-in-east-china-sea-as-dispute-with-beijing-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo seeks US vow of support in East China Sea, as dispute with Beijing heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"In a sign of the significance of the issue for Japan, Tokyo has wasted no time in getting the new administration in Washington to confirm that disputed islands in the East China Sea are Japanese territory and that the US would come to Japan\u2019s assistance should that control be jeopardised.\r\rJake Sullivan, the national security adviser to new US President Joe Biden, held talks on Thursday with Shigeru Kitamura, the head of Japan\u2019s National Security Secretariat, on a range of issues. From Tokyo\u2019s\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118835\/tokyo-seeks-us-vow-support-east-china-sea-dispute-beijing-heats\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sign of the significance of the issue for Japan, Tokyo has wasted no time in getting the new administration in Washington to confirm that disputed islands in the East China Sea are Japanese territory and that the US would come to Japan\u2019s assistanc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11629,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions\/11629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}