Joe Biden Set To Visit Japan And South Korea, China To Be Warned Against Aggression.

A trip to enhance Diplomatic relations with the East.

Joe Biden is set to visit Japan and South Korea during his first term as an US president. The visit is also seen as a warning to china to refrain from any acts of aggression like that of Russia in Ukraine.

Experts and analysts across the world see the trip as an attempt by Biden administration to form new alliances in the Eastern Pacific.

President Biden departed from the US on Thursday, and is set to visit newly elected president of South Korea Yoon Seok-Yool in capital Seoul, followed by a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo.

Joe Biden set to visit Japan and South Korea, China to be warned against aggression. - Asiana Times — South Korea’s President Yoon Seok-Yool has shown interest in forming diplomatic as well as military alliances with Washington, to counter the growing aggression of China and North Korea.
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Both the leaders of Japan and South Korea are anxious to discuss their nation’s security situation’s, in the light of North Korea’s Missile testing programs and China’s frequent violation of International Maritime laws.

Evan Medeiros, an expert on Asian affairs recognizes the main concern of the visit – to form new alliances in the Eastern Pacific Front and also to counter China’s increasingly brazen behavior towards Taiwan.

As Biden is set to visit the countries, a number of important issues are being prioritized in order to strengthen America’s alliance with Japan and South Korea.

What can be done?

The harsh economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the Biden administration, as a consequence of the Invasion of Ukraine, won’t be as successful against Beijing.

China is still the largest trade partner of South Korea as of this day, Until US can provide trade relations of the same magnitude to South Korea, US will be second to China is terms of trade in the Eastern Pacific.

The alliance process is further convoluted due to the lack of plans by Biden administration in case China does try to take back the self-governed nation of Taiwan.

Although experts see China mobilizing amphibious troops for a large military campaign in the South East already, US has more pressing world matters at hand.

Also since the treaty with previous US President Donald Trump fell apart, North Korea has resumed its weapons testing initiatives that regularly threaten the integrity of the neighboring nations of Japan and South Korea.

Thus the formation of alliance with Seoul and Tokyo is of crucial importance to US, as with the support of its newfound Asian allies US will be able to counter and support the concerned countries in case of an invasion by North Korea or China.

Despite all the flaws, experts say Biden’s visit comes at a time when the leaders of Japan and South Korea are extremely pro-alliance, due to the threat from China and North Korea respectively.

Carrying gifts for allies

Biden is anticipated to provide better collaboration opportunities to the ally nations on a number of technological initiatives, including proposals for new public-private partnerships to ease supply chain restrictions.

As well as support for Japanese and South Korean government’s to modernize their defense capabilities and develop offensive military capacity.

North Korea is rumored to test a new missile launch in Thursday, despite undergoing a COVID-19 outbreak Pyongyang is not willing to let up on its weapons tests.

The last nuclear weapons test by NK was in 2017, since then traditional nuclear warheads haven’t been tested by Pyongyang, but experts say that it’s high time that NK might start again.

President Biden is also set to visit Tokyo, to meet the prime minister’s from the quad nations of India, Australia and Japan.

Prime minister Kishida and Biden will be maintaining a light response to what DC considers a weak response by India towards Russia’s acts of aggressions in Ukraine.

In Tokyo, Biden will also inaugurate a new Indi- Pacific Economic Framework to further progress cross-Border investments as a bid to strengthen Diplomatic alliances, trade relations, Infrastructure, Environmental Initiatives and anti tax and anti corruption measures.

Conclusion

As Biden is set to visit the Eastern Pacific countries of South Korea and Japan, experts notice the layout of an East Asian alliance in the making.

US can provide a new trading platform for South Korea and Japan to invest in.

With hundreds of millions of American consumers overseas, The Asian countries can bridge a previously unattainable gap between US and it’s Asian counterparts.

As part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative, that was abandoned by President Donald Trump in 2017, Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida may press Biden to resume to the former Presidents plans as negotiations of the alliance between the countries.