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The United States and Japan joined the Philippines to form another triangular security alliance.
To counter China’s One Belt One Road initiative, an agreement was reached to invest in large-scale global infrastructure in the Philippines.
Correspondent Wang Zongmyeong reports from Washington.
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The day after the leaders of the United States and Japan decided to strengthen military cooperation like never before, a tripartite summit was held with Philippine President Ferdinando Marcos.
They announced a strategy to isolate China by supporting the Philippines, which is involved in a territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea, a key point in the US-China hegemony competition.
[조 바이든/미국 대통령]
“Today we commit to writing the story of our future together to build a free, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific.”
First, President Biden chose the Philippines as the first partner of the Global Infrastructure Partnership in the Indo-Pacific region, which is being promoted in response to China’s One Belt One Road, and decided to make large-scale investments in the areas submarine cables. , logistics, clean energy, and communications.
In addition, he made it clear that the Superior Defense Treaty also applies to Philippine ships anchored in the South China Sea, showing his will not to hide from military confrontation with China, which blocks access to the Philippines by firing water cannons.
At the same time, we decided to strengthen the triangular security alliance of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines in this region.
In addition to sharing military information, we also conduct maritime patrol training and joint patrolling activities.
To prevent it from being a one-off meeting, we decided to systematize and regulate the trilateral security alliance as the Korea-US-Japan security cooperation.
China reacted sensitively.
[마오닝/중국 외교부 대변인]
“The United States and Japan have slandered and attacked China on the issues of Taiwan and the South China Sea and shamelessly interfered in China’s internal affairs.”
Now Japan is at the center of all the security partnerships that the United States operates in the Indo-Pacific region.
At the same time, we have come closer to becoming a ‘normal country that can go to war.’
This is Wang Jong-myeong from MBC News in Washington.
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