President Joe Biden’s impending summit with the leaders of Japan and South Korea promises to be “an historic meeting” with two American allies moving to put traditional tensions aside in order to link arms with the United States, according to the top U.S. diplomat.
“Japan and South Korea are core allies — not just in the region, but around the world. Strengthening our trilateral cooperation is critical to delivering for our people, for the region, and for the world,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday. “It’s a force multiplier for good.
“There is nothing like an actual real war, even though it’s in another part of the world, to completely change the way or affect the way leaders think about their security,” Center for Strategic and International Studies Senior Vice President Victor Cha, a former White House National Security Council director for asian affairs, said Monday.
Chinese officials have tried to discourage such a posture by accusing Tokyo of trying “to revive the specter of militarism,” as Xi put it in a joint communique with Putin released in February 2022, and Beijing fumed at “the cobbling together of various small circles by the countries concerned” — which the communist power has characterized as an attempt to lay the groundwork for a “mini-NATO” in the Indo-Pacific.
“Security of the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific region is deeply linked to the security in the Atlantic and Europe. Accordingly, strengthening cooperation with NATO is also of great importance,” Yoon said. “Because the Republic of Korea's security is very much aligned with security of the Indo-Pacific region, the Atlantic, Europe, and the world.”
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