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Japan, Mongolia to cooperate on 'Free and Open Indo-Pacific'

by Mari Yamaguchi
| October 12, 2020 12:03 AM

TOKYO (AP) — The foreign ministers of Japan and Mongolia agreed Friday to cooperate in promoting a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific," a vision that Tokyo is pushing with the U.S. and other “like-minded” countries to counter China's growing assertiveness in the region.

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