pledging to uphold the international rules based order. vamps coming from japanese foreign minister yoshi massa. hi ashi. as he and his colleagues from the group of 7, well, the democracies meet in the japanese resort town of carries over russia as warn ukraine and increased chinese assertiveness in asia are also teams at the meetings . here is more on the torn host. japan has stepped and the international community is her. now at the history starting point. so we will family reject any union that through attempts to change the status quo by force, or all rushes aggression against clain, as well as the threat of use of nuclear weapons. by doing so, we will demonstrate to the world that g 7 strong determination to uphold the international order based on the law. all right, so let's get more context on this from you each year or so. yeah, he's a professor in international politics at k or university in talk. your professor, japan's foreign minister, your she masa higher. she has talked of court upholding international order based on the rule of law. why did he feel this is a point that needs to b

it was the japanese or foreign minister yoshi massa. he as she who opened the proceedings, this is the main day of this se, gathering a welcoming, the other members of the a g 7. and really outlining what are going to be the key issues. and they are, as we know, going to be dominated by ukraine and. ready so by ad china and the g seven's approaches to both am at repeating some of the main talking point. so the policies points are of the g 7 that we heard in the are welcoming dinner on a sunday night, talking about the g 7 supporting an open international rules based order condemning any country that wants to change the status quo unilaterally. air for calling out russia for its aggression in ukraine, and also condemning the seemingly it's a threats from russia to use nuclear weapons. it's worth noting that japan remains the only country in the world ever to have been subjected to an atomic attack. or we also heard that there will be discussing the indo pacific are some of the issues relating to taiwan. and i think there is a concern amo

the 1st main session of this main day of talks of focusing on the indo pacific region hosted by yoshi massa hi. ashy, the japanese foreign minister issuing a statement at the end of it saying that the g 7 members are fully supportive of a free and open indo pacific. and also supporting an, an issue initiative by japan which plays a pivotal role here. being the only asian g 7 member to collaborate with india with as the and that the southeast asian nations and also pacific islands as a, a way of a, a countering the expanding influence of china in this region. there's a real concern here about the china threats to taiwan, but also about the way that china has very successfully been a forging closer ties with a pacific island nations and pulling them into its orbit. there's a real feeling here amongst their juice have members that they should be out there trying to pull those same at pacific islands back into their own or but also beyond that, china's influence in the so called and the global south, the developing nations of the world where china has been in recent years be making big in roads