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Japan urges EU to be tougher on China
By EUobserver
Japan's defence minister, Nobuo Kishi, has appealed to Europe to speak out on mounting Chinese aggression in an interview with The Guardian newspaper Monday. China was "attempting to use its power to unilaterally change the status quo in the East and South China Seas", he said, in what posed a threat "to the safety and security of not only our own country and the region but for the global community".