The US, Japan, and South Korea on Friday announced a series of steps to boost their trilateral military alliance as the leaders of the three nations met at the presidential retreat at Camp David.
The effort to reconcile ties between Tokyo and Seoul and boost military cooperation is part of the Biden administration’s strategy against China in the Asia Pacific. The trilateral alliance is also aimed at North Korea, as the US and South Korea are involved in a series of tit-for-tat escalations with Pyongyang.
According to the White House, the three nations agreed to a “multi-year trilateral exercise plan.” The plan involves a “multi-year trilateral framework that includes annual, named, multi-domain trilateral exercises, which will constitute an unprecedented level of trilateral defense cooperation.”
The US, Japan, and South Korea agreed to cooperate on ballistic missile defense to improve detection of North Korean missiles, form a working group on North Korean cyber activities, enhance information sharing, and work together to “counter foreign information manipulation.”
The meeting between President Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol marked the first stand-alone trilateral summit between the three nations’ leaders. They announced plans to hold an annual trilateral leaders summit, an annual summit between other high-level officials, and an annual “Trilateral Indo-Pacific Dialogue.”
The trilateral cooperation is just one aspect of the US’s multi-pronged effort to build alliances in the region to prepare for a future war with China. The efforts include the AUKUS military pact between the US, Australia, and Britain, increasing cooperation with the Quad, encouraging Japan-Australia ties, and beefing up the overall US military presence in the Asia Pacific.
War games are beginning to suck the air out of the coming Olympic Games. There is even a striking simile. After the games are over you go home to train some more at home!
Sports fans are oblivious to political jockeying and will risk their lives to cheer on their favorites.. Besides no state in the region will dare to mess with China with or without the U,S,
What a JOKE… What are these feckless non nuclear bomb states good for in any serious confrontation with the Hyper armed BIG DUO, Russia and or CHINA… Has everyone lost their common sense. These non nuclear bomb states are useless except to maybe piss off these bomb states.
A Hype armed BIGN DUE sounds pretty scary. Is it something like a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater?
“Multi Year” means ‘multi billions’ of our taxes squandered for more sabre rattling around the world. Maybe the Japanese or Korean peoples will do something Americans are afraid to do, like ‘just say no’ to WWIII?