Biden actively persuades to’erase Trump’
Expression was controversial, but concluded with’free and open’
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Tokyo/AFP Yonhap News
At the first telephone meeting between US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the Japanese government said that the US and Japan were working together to pursue a’free and open India-Pacific’ strategy to contain China. This diplomatic strategy has been in existence since the days of former President Donald Trump, and it has been extended to Biden’s government, which “erased Trump”. “The significance of the two leaders’ (US-Japan) sharing the ideology of being’free and open’ for the Indo-Pacific policy is great,” he said on the 29th. The strategy of’free and open India-Pacific’ was reflected in the announcements of the White House and the Japanese Prime Minister’s residence after the US-Japan summit phone conference. The Japanese government has been worried that the strategy of the Indo-Pacific will be shaken as the Biden administration is in place. This strategy is Japan’s core diplomatic policy, first revealed by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a keynote speech at the African Development Conference held in Kenya in August 2016. It was adopted by former President Trump, who took office in 2017, and the US and Japan have kept pace. The goal is to cooperate with Asia and Africa on economic growth and security. It is advocating’freedom of the sea based on the rule of law’, which is intended to check China’s pursuit of a military base in the South China Sea. The Japanese government was concerned that Biden’s government, which went to “erasing Trump,” would try to make changes, such as changing the phrase. In fact, after the US presidential election in November last year, President Biden described the data as’prosperous and safe’ instead of’free and open’ in the data released after having a telephone talk with Prime Minister Suga. “The value that the Japanese government is’free and open’ should not be left to check China. This is a concept created by Japan, not the Trump administration.” “We have repeatedly persuaded us with the logic that support is spreading in Australia (Australia), Southeast Asia, and Europe.” It also reported that “until the talks, there was opposition within the new administration (Biden) to inheriting the expressions used by the Trump administration. The Japanese media reported that President Biden also praised the promotion of the’Quad’ in four countries, including the United States, Japan, Australia and India, to implement the Indo-Pacific strategy. The quad was first held in New York, USA in September 2019, and in October last year, the second meeting was held in Tokyo, Japan, and opinions were gathered to make regularization. By Kim So-yeon, staff reporter [email protected]