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Pelosi lands in Japan, the last stop on her Asia tour

MADRID, 4 Ago.

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Pelosi lands in Japan, the last stop on her Asia tour

MADRID, 4 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has landed late this Thursday at the Yokota Air Base, in Tokyo, a trip with which she will put an end to her tour of Asia after a controversial visit less than 24 hours to Taiwan.

Pelosi is scheduled to hold talks this Friday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and with the Speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives, Hiroyuki Hosoda, respectively, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Kishida and Pelosi are expected to deepen bilateral ties and discuss "common challenges" for both nations, including the realization of a "free and open" Indo-Pacific, according to the Kiodo news agency.

Likewise, before her meeting with Hosoda, it is expected that the president of the US House of Representatives will attend a plenary meeting of the Lower House, where her Japanese counterpart will read a message of condolences for the death of former Prime Minister Shizo Abe, according to indicated Jiji Press.

In the midst of this official visit, the Japanese government has denounced this Thursday that five of the nine ballistic missiles launched by the Chinese Army as part of a series of military maneuvers have fallen into waters southwest of the island of Hateruma, in Okinawa. , within the Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone.

After this, Tokyo has presented a diplomatic proposal to Beijing and has shown its concern about Chinese military training, announced after Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, where she arrived on Tuesday night.