US President Joe Biden and the leaders of South Korea and Japan have made their strongest joint condemnation yet of “dangerous and aggressive behaviour” by China.
US President Joe Biden and the leaders of South Korea and Japan have agreed at a summit to deepen military and economic ties and made their strongest joint condemnation yet of “dangerous and aggressive behaviour” by China in the South China Sea.
They also agreed to hold trilateral military training exercises annually and to share real-time information on North Korean missile launches by the end of 2023. The countries promised to hold trilateral summits annually. The commitments at Biden’s first Camp David summit for foreign leaders represent a significant move for Seoul and Tokyo, which have a long history of mutual acrimony and distrust. Biden said woodsy Camp David was a venue that had long symbolised “the power of new beginnings and new possibilities”.
With Washington’s encouragement, Tokyo and Seoul are navigating their way past disputes dating to Japan’s 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean Peninsula. “They have sometimes gone against the advice of their own counsellors and staff and taken steps that elevate the Japan-South Korea relationship into a new plane,” he said.Beijing has warned that US efforts to strengthen ties with South Korea and Japan could “increase tension and confrontation in the region”.
Tensions in the South China Sea have flared between US ally the Philippines and China over a grounded warship that serves as a Philippine military outpost in the strategic waterway, a major global trade route.
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