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US Secretary of State Blincoln (left) visits Japan and meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.
US Secretary of State Blinken (Antony Blinken) and Secretary of Defense Llyod Austin (Llyod Austin) chose Asia for their first overseas visit after taking office, with Japan as their starting point. The two arrived in Tokyo today and will then travel to South Korea and India.
The United States Department of State stated in a statement on March 14 that the visit of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense to Japan “will once again emphasize the United States’ commitment to strengthening alliance relations and cooperation and promoting peace, security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and the world. “
Brinken and Austin have their own itinerary for this visit, but the first stop is Japan. The two will attend the Japan-US Security Advisory Committee (SCC) meeting together. Subsequently, Brinken will hold separate talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and businessmen.
Prior to this, the leaders of the four countries of the United States, Japan, India and Australia held the “Quad Security Dialogue” (Quad) summit last week. The meeting mentioned the guarantee of freedom and openness in the Indo-Pacific region, as well as cooperation on issues such as the Internet and economic security, and focused on China’s challenges.
Drew Thompason, a senior fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, told BBC China that the joint high-level US visit to Asian allies sent an important signal.
He believes this is an emphasis on America’s commitment to these alliances. The United States is willing to incorporate the interests and concerns of its allies into the alliance to ensure that the region remains free and open to all members. Furthermore, from the point of view of the United States, the new Biden administration has stated that “the international alliance that the United States seeks will be to respond to the challenges or threats posed by China in the Indo-Pacific region,” Tang Anzhu said.
The first stop on Brinken’s overseas visit.
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Blincoln chose Japan for his first visit, and the external analysis emphasizes the close relationship between the United States and Japan. It’s been 12 years since Hilary Clinton, the former US Secretary of State, chose Asia for her first overseas visit after taking office.
During his stay in Japan, Brinken will have a video dialogue with Japanese businessmen and will visit high-level officials such as the Japanese Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Beijing has yet to comment on the US high-level visit to Asia.
However, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian in a regular press conference on Monday (March 15), Monday (March 15), Monday (March 15), the Federal Commission on Communications (FCC) identified five Chinese companies, including Huawei, ZTE. and Hikvision as threats to the security of the United States. In response to the blacklist problem, he harshly criticized the US government, saying it “maintains the monopoly and hegemony of US technology, and unscrupulously cracks down on Chinese high-tech companies.” Zhao Lijian criticized the United States as a “spy empire, secret empire and matrix empire.”
Yin Yanjun, an honorary professor at Kanto Gakuin University in Japan, published an article commenting on America’s Asian policy in overseas Chinese media. He said: “The United States feels that relying on one country to challenge China is not feasible, so it brings many countries to a siege, but all countries are skeptical of the motives of the United States and its consequences, and have persistent fears. about the United States “. priority policies “.
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The visit of the new US Secretary of State to Asia coincides with the eve of the high-level meeting of the United States and China in Alaska on the 18th of this month.
The two recently wrote to the “Washington Post” and mentioned many times that they would form an alliance against the “China threat.” The article said that “with alliances you can achieve greater success than without alliances … Ignoring these relationships will constitute a huge strategic mistake.”
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Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi will meet Brinken in Alaska later.
The two pointed to China’s need to form an alliance, saying that “China has violated human rights in Xinjiang and Tibet, systematically eroded Hong Kong’s autonomy, secretly undermined Taiwan’s democracy, and also defended maritime rights in the South China Sea, thereby violating international law. ” . Together, we can hold China accountable. “
Just days before the Alaska meeting, high-level US officials have repeatedly made comments about the “threat from China” in recent days, prompting much scrutiny.
Tang Anzhu believes that on the eve of the high-level dialogue between the United States and China, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense of the United States visited Japan and South Korea. These diplomatic actions may indicate that the United States can engage in direct and frank dialogue on many issues in its talks with China.
Song Wendi, a professor at the Australian National University (ANU) School of Foreign Relations, once analyzed to the BBC that because the United States and China have repeatedly emphasized before the meeting that the March 18 meeting will be ” frank and serious, which means that both parties are in. The other’s positions were expected to be very different, and there are few “consensuses” where the results are subordinate, and it is the “dialogue” itself at the process level.
