The "small circle" of the United States, Japan, and South Korea can only encircle themselves, and the resonance mechanism of interests is difficult | strategy | small circle
Recently, leaders of the United States, Japan, and South Korea met at Camp David in Maryland, USA. This is the first time they have stepped out of a multilateral setting and started a "three person chat" mode. The United States is accelerating the pace of building a "small NATO" in East Asia, not only linking Japan and South Korea to contain China and interfere in China's internal affairs, but also inciting confrontation, damaging the strategic security of other countries by piecing together "small circles", and maintaining its global hegemony.
On the one hand, the "Camp David Alliance" is gradually pressing with the United States as the lead, and Japan and South Korea are following suit, exaggerating the so-called "China threat".
In the three documents released after the meeting, the three countries directly named China, stating that they strongly oppose any attempt to unilaterally change the status quo of the Indo Pacific waters, and continue to smear and attack China on issues such as the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, gross interference in China's internal affairs.
At the same time, discussions were held during the meeting on economic security issues such as semiconductor and battery supply chains, as well as the establishment of a global technology supply chain that excludes China. The intention to contain China is clear and to intensify the suppression of Chinese high-tech enterprises. In recent years, based on its own political interests, the United States has repeatedly shifted from advocating "decoupling" from China to "de risk", continuously making bilateral economic, trade and technological issues more secure and politicized, and pursuing and intercepting Chinese technology enterprises.
On the other hand, this meeting, under the pretext of "maintaining regional security", aims to create a "small NATO in the Asia Pacific region", further incite factional confrontation, and exacerbate the risk of regional instability.
It is not difficult to find that the United States finds it difficult to break free from the mindset of "small circles". Various closed and exclusive "small circles" led by the United States, such as the United States, Japan, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Japan, India, and Australia, are common.
The United States, nicknamed "security cooperation," essentially deeply binds regional countries with their so-called "Indo Pacific strategy," strengthens the "Five Eyes Alliance," "Quadrilateral Mechanism," and "Trilateral Security Partnership," repeatedly incites division and creates turbulent conflicts, attempting to revive Cold War thinking.
This meeting may seem like a "three way rush", but in reality, each has their own thoughts. The prospects of the trilateral cooperation mechanism between the United States, Japan, and South Korea are not clear in the situation where interests are difficult to resonate. The Korean National Daily warns that if South Korea gets involved in the "New Cold War" instigated by the United States, the security risks around the Korean Peninsula will significantly increase. If Japan and South Korea willingly assume the role of a pawn for the United States to maintain its hegemonic position in Asia, it would be like taking chestnuts from the fire.
All attempts to provoke a new Cold War in the Asia Pacific region will be resolutely resisted by regional countries and people, and all actions to establish and maintain hegemony in the Asia Pacific region are destined to end in failure. The United States, Japan, and South Korea's adherence to Cold War zero sum thinking, piecing together exclusive "small circles", will eventually ignite a fire.