President Joe Biden is hosting a trilateral conference at Camp David with Japan and South Korea to develop new security plans in response to Beijing's escalating military coercion.
While the summit brings two historic rivals, Japan and South Korea, together in the face of China's regional threat, experts applaud the move, noting that the US's close collaboration with Japan, South Korea, and other Asian regional partners is an important step in deterring a conflict initiated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Anders Corr, a strategic analyst of international politics and security, applauds the trilateral conference since it brings together two past adversaries to expedite regional peace.
Mr. Corr founded the risk consultancy Corr Analytics and is the editor of the Journal of Political Risk. He served five years with US military intelligence, including time in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
“Defending Taiwan from a China invasion would require extensive U.S. utilization of military bases in Japan, South Korea, and our other allies in the region, including the Philippines and Australia,” Mr. Corr said.
“It is critical that Japan and South Korea mend fences on their historic grievances so that we can all move ahead with ensuring that the former hub-and-spoke alliance relations evolve into a more coordinated defensive network, including direct coordination between the Japanese and South Korean militaries,” said Mr. Corr.
To counter the threat posed by the Communist regimes of Beijing and North Korea, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called for greater security cooperation with the US and Japan.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol stated in a speech commemorating the end of Japanese colonial control over the Korean Peninsula in 1945 that Japan is a partner with shared values.
Mr. Yoon described the upcoming Camp David summit as "a new milestone in trilateral cooperation contributing to peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula and in the Indo-Pacific region," in a speech on August 15.
