UNITED States President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol have agreed to hold at least one trilateral meeting each year.
The three leaders also released a joint statement to express support for their alliance.
In a press conference during the retreat at Camp David Maryland, Biden said the US and its Asian allies will be raising the defense cooperation’s to unprecedented heights.
The US called on for the meeting with his Asian allies to answer to the rising tensions between it and China.
In a joint statement by the three leaders titled “The Spirit of Camp David” they have agreed to hold annual trilateral meetings amongst leaders, foreign ministers, defense ministers, and national security advisors.
The South Korean president said that with the new channel for communications would allow them to swiftly coordinate and respond to urgent issues occurring in the region.
The statement views China as a growing threat to geopolitical and economic influence.
All of this is happening amid the tensions in the Indo-Pacific Region and the rivalry between two superpowers.
To recall, the US Has already ranked China as its stop strategic competitor.
US wants to create ‘mini-NATO’ in Asia—Expert
Meanwhile, Chinese Media Global Times quoting a Chinese expert said that the three countries are expected to gradually form a “mini- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)” security mechanism for northeast Asia through a specific defense technology sharing and joint military drills.
According to Li Haidong, a professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, the mini-NATO mechanism capitalizes on concerns stemming from missile and nuclear threats on the Korean Peninsula, however, the design of this mechanism does not aim to resolve the existing security problem in northeast Asia.
“This ‘mini-NATO’ mechanism indeed capitalizes on concerns stemming from missile and nuclear threats on the Korean Peninsula. But the design of the mechanism is not aimed at resolving the existing security dilemma in northeast Asia”.
The mini-NATO mechanism seeks to exploit the existing security challenges to create an alliance framework that would dominate the regional security agenda, and this move, according to Li, reflects the destructive intentions of the United States.
