Meeting for an historic Camp David summit, 80-year-old President Joe Biden met with 66-year-old conservative Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kashida and 62-year-old leftist South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to discuss new security arrangements in the age of China and North Korean threats. Yeol and Kashida were acutely aware of the gravity of the former enemies meeting on new terms in a new age of Indo-Chinese cooperation. What Yeol and Kashida didn’t know was that Biden and his 60-year-old Secretary of State Anton Blinken and 40-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan look to shore up a defense alliance against Beijing in the new age of deteriorated U.S.-Chinese relations. Not since the 1949 Maoist revolution have relations with Communist China been so bleak. Biden has pushed China to the breaking point, violating parts of the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.
Biden claims the focus of the gathering at Camp David was to mend fences between once rival countries when Imperial Japan occupied South Korea from 1910 to 1945. “The purpose of our bilateral security cooperation is and will remain to promote peace and stability throughout the region,” Biden said in a joint statement. But China knows what the U.S. has been up to in the Pacific Rim, soliciting a coalition of the willing to join a security alliance, much like NATO, to protect the region against what they see as Beijing bullying. Biden said the summit “was not about China,” but Yoon and Kashida know that it’s all about forming a security shield against Mainland China. China’s “dangerous and aggressive” action in the South China Sea “strongtly opposes any unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the waters of the Indo-Pacific,” contradicting Biden’s statement.
Since taking office Jan. 20, 2021, Biden has provoked Communist China to the point to coming to blower over Taiwan. Biden blames China for human right abuses, including genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Western China and a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Beijing rejects Biden’s claims, saying that no country that admits to systemic racism against African Americans has a right to lecture any country on human rights. U.S. relations to China went from bad to worse when former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 93, visited Taiwan Aug. 4, 2022, provoking Beijing into a show of force in the Taiwan Strait. Biden added insult to injury Sept. 23, 2022, telling the world that he would commit U.S. troops to defending Taiwan from the Chinese invasion. Chinese President Xi Jinping said Biden violated the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act threatening Beijing.
Hosting a Camp David summit, Xi has his eyes-and-ears monitoring every word but knows the game Biden and his national security team play with Communist China. Watching Yoon and Kashida shake hands promising new cooperation is a direct and provocative threat to Beijing. Xi understands why Putin invaded Ukraine, knowing that the U.S. and NATO had breached all security arrangements, arming the Kiev government to the teeth. Putin warned Biden for months not to continue supplying unlimited arms to Kiev without what he called a “special military operation.” When Putin invaded Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022, Biden called his actions “unprovoked” and “unjustified.” But Biden and his national security team knew what they did to push the European Continent to the brink of WW III. Now the Camp David summit takes Biden’s new security arrangement over the top.
Japan and South Korea pledge a new security paradigm to confront threats largely coming from China and North Korea. Japan and South Korea pledged “our joint response capabilities to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats, which have become sophisticated more than ever,” said a joint communiqué. North Korea often shoots ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan and the Korean Sea when the U.S. engages in joint military exercises, something the U.S. has done since July 27, 1953 when the U.S. signed an armistice to end the Korean War. North Korea still sees itself at war with the United States and its partners. Only a brief window opened up with North Korea during the Trump administration where former President Donald Trump crossed the DMZ into North Korea in a sign to thawing relations. Biden has worsened U.S. relations with China, Russia and North Korea.
Biden’s Camp David summit pours salt in the wounds between the U.S. and Communist China, knowing Japanese and South Korean ties represent a threat to Beijing. Biden’s attempt to build a NATO-like Indo-Pacific security zone infuriates Beijing, seeing the U.S. meddling in the Pacific Rim. China has its own relations with Indo-Pacific countries without the U.S. forming a security alliance. Japan and South Korea agreed to a “duty to consult” when it comes to security threats primarily from North Korea and China. Biden wonders why Xi has not denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Xi blames Biden for encroaching on Russian national security just like he’s doing with Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific region. Biden has done more damage to U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Chinese relations. Now he’s pushing Japan and South Korea into a dangerous alliance.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
