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Biden's return to the Indo-Pacific is a clever move and the dark crossing between Chencang

2022-06-02T11:15:40.740Z


As the Russian-Ukrainian war has grabbed U.S. diplomatic attention for nearly three months, the Biden administration has made frequent moves in the Indo-Pacific diplomatic field since this month, reaffirming that China remains the "most serious long-term challenge" in the eyes of the United States. May


As the Russian-Ukrainian war has grabbed U.S. diplomatic attention for nearly three months, the Biden administration has made frequent moves in the Indo-Pacific diplomatic field since this month, reaffirming that China remains the "most serious long-term challenge" in the eyes of the United States.


The "U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit" held at the White House from May 12 to 13 has a strong flavor of "joining friends to control China"; Biden's visit to South Korea and Japan from May 20 to 24 also announced that most of the Indo-Pacific The "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework" (IPEF) that major countries participated in, and held another US-Japan-India-Australia "Quad Security Dialogue" (Quad) summit after the establishment of the new Australian government, and Biden also adopted his third military The guard's "slip of the tongue" stirred Beijing's nerves again.

On May 23, Tokyo, Japan, Biden, Kishida Fumio, and Modi attended the "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework" meeting. Leaders of other initial IPEF member countries also attended the meeting through video calls.

(Associated Press)

Last Thursday (May 26), Secretary of State Antony Blinken made his long-delayed speech on China policy. technological strength” to overthrow the existing international order.

The State Department will establish a "China House" to consolidate and implement policies to meet this "unprecedented" diplomatic challenge.

Although there is nothing new in Blinken's speech throughout, he has put on a new package of "invest, align and compete" for the US strategy towards China.

On the same day, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also set off for a ten-day visit to the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, East Timor ( East Timor and Fiji and other eight countries, and hosted the second China-Pacific Island Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Fiji.

According to foreign media reports, China is planning to sign a security agreement with South Pacific island countries similar to the one it signed with the Solomon Islands before, and plans to promote free trade cooperation between China and countries in the region, and has written a related five-year plan.

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