FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada as part of the 2023 U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting at the State Department in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2023. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo