Senator Johnston backed tough words by his US counterpart, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, at a fiery conference in Singapore that one analyst says has hammered home growing security fears about the region.
Speaking from the Shangri-La Dialogue on Sunday, Senator Johnston said "the US, Australia and Japan are very concerned that unilateral action is destabilising the region of the South China Sea particularly, and East China Sea".
He added that countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines shared this concern and that this had come through in discussions at the meeting.
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