On foreign policy, Trump swung for the fences and missed. Biden is getting runs on the board.
,” as the three leaders pledged in May at the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima. The informal atmosphere of the presidential retreat will deepen relations among the three leaders, just as it once did for Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. Biden, who is known for his empathy, has a gift for managing these kinds of interpersonal relationships.
A priority for the three leaders is to expand trilateral military exercises and intelligence-sharing on North Korean missile launches while making clear that their mutual security is closely linked. The ultimate, long-term objective should be to directly link Japanese and South Korean missile-defense systems instead of using the United States as a middleman. It is also important for the two countries to expand cooperation in dealing with cyberthreats from North Korea and China.
Major challenges remain. Both Yoon and Kishida are suffering in public approval polls, and Yoon faces resistance from the opposition Democratic Party to his attempts to improve relations. According to a, 64 percent of South Koreans said their country should not rush into reconciliation without a change in Japan’s attitudes, and only 8 percent said that the Japanese government had repented of its colonial past.
These dynamics show why the Camp David meeting is so important: U.S. support can provide cover for both Yoon and Kishida to proceed further along the perilous path of friendship.There are limits, of course, to how much even the most skillful diplomacy can achieve: South Korea will remain reluctant to confront China, its, as directly as the United States and even Japan are willing to do.
That is an ambitious objective, and it remains to be seen whether it is achievable. But Biden deserves considerable credit for devoting precious diplomatic capital to move the trilateral relationship this far this fast.
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