防衛当局の対話継続確認　木原氏、中国国防相と会談

　【シンガポール時事】木原稔防衛相は１日午前（日本時間同）、中国の董軍国防相と訪問先のシンガポールで会談した。両防衛相は昨年開設したホットライン（専用回線）の安定的な運用を含め、防衛当局間の対話継続を確認した。
　日中防衛相会談は約１年ぶりで、木原氏と董氏によるものは初めて。（2024/06/01-12:08）

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and his Chinese counterpart, Dong Jun, met in Singapore on Saturday and agreed that their countries' defense authorities will continue dialogue, including on the stable management of a bilateral hotline established last year.
   The meeting was the first between Kihara, who assumed his current post in September last year, and Dong, who took office in December, and the first between the defense chiefs of the two countries in about a year.
   During the meeting, Kihara expressed concern over China's increasing activities around Japan and noted that Japan aims to build stable and constructive relations with China by continuing heart-to-heart talks between their defense authorities.
   Dong said that the defense authorities should make every effort to translate the two sides' political consensus not to become a threat to each other into concrete policies and actions.