The US is forging two Asian trilateral with Japan, focusing on the Philippines in Southeast Asia and South Korea in Northeast Asia, aimed at bolstering regional containment efforts against China.
The US is forming two Asian trilaterals with itself and Japan that are centered on the Philippines in Southeast Asia and South Korea in Northeast Asia.
It’s no secret that the US is preparing to “Pivot (back) to Asia” in order to more muscularly contain China, but few have paid attention to the form in which this is expected to take in the coming future. Instead of the US doing so on its own or through the previously assembled Quad of itself, Australia, India, and Japan, it’s increasingly relying on the Squad. This framework swaps India out for the Philippines, and its latest relevant development was the clinching of a Japanese-Philippine military logistics pact.
That agreement follows April’s first-ever trilateral US-Japanese-Philippine summit, which tig...
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