Blinken arrives in Japan for 2+2 security talks, Quad
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, is welcomed upon arrival for the start of his two-day visit, at Yokota Air Base in Fussa, western Tokyo, on July 28, 2024. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, gestures to China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi as they meet on the sidelines of the 57th Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers' meeting in Vientiane, Laos, on July 27, 2024.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Japan on Sunday as part of an Asia-Pacific tour aimed at shoring up alliances in the face of an increasingly assertive China.
A woman tea plantation worker plucks tea leaves at an estate in Badulla, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Tea plantation worker Adaraja Ali Rani leaves her living quarters to pluck tea tips in Spring Valley estate in Badulla, Sri Lanka, Sep. 10, 2024. Muthuthewarkittan Manohari, a tea plantation worker, right, bathes her younger daughter Madubhashini, as her elder daughter Shalani, center, stands at the doorway of their small house in Spring Valley Estate in Badulla, Sri Lanka, Sept. 9, 2024.
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