The meeting between Joe Biden and Japan and South Korea’s heads of state symbolises a profound hardening of attitudes in the Pacific
this year. China, disappointingly, has done little to stop him. Beijing’s ally, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, is positively encouraging him.
While US officials are careful how they frame the new agreement, China is in no doubt it is aimed directly at itself. It follows Biden’s upgrading of the so-called Quad, which groups the US, India, Japan and Australia; the creation of Aukus, a security pact with Australia and the UK; and a raised US naval and air force profile in the Philippines, South China Sea and aroundThe numerous, ill-judged actions of President Xi Jinping’s regime have brought much of this down on its own head.
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