Chinese rebellion against “No anti-jung club”
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Foreign Ministers of the United States, Japan, India, and Australia, a four-country council, held videoconferences and agreed to oppose China’s attempts to change the status quo in the Indo-Pacific region. In response to this, China strongly opposed the anti-Chinese club, saying it was pushing for a blockade in China. Since the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, the first quad meeting will still maintain the public’s hardline policy, and conflict between the United States and China is likely to increase in the future.
According to Kyodo News on the 19th, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blincoln and Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu held a videoconference the day before. This is the third meeting of foreign ministers since 2019, when four countries united in a quad. After the meeting, Foreign Minister Motegi told reporters, “The ministers of the four countries agreed strongly against any attempt by China to change the situation in the Indo-Pacific through force or coercion.”
In addition, the US State Department said in a press release, “The ministers of the four countries have re-emphasized their promise to hold quad meetings at least once a year at the ministerial level and regularly at the high-level and working level. This is to strengthen cooperation in promoting free and open Indo-Pacific regions, including freedom of navigation and territorial integrity.
In addition, the ministers of the four countries reaffirmed their mutual support for the’ASEAN-centrality’ that the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) along the Indo-Pacific coast (ASEAN) advocated to strengthen the role of the international community. The ministers of the four countries also discussed the urgency of the restoration of a democratically elected government in connection with the military coup in Myanmar, the State Department said.
The meeting attracted attention because it was the first meeting held by the new administration, while the Biden administration, which largely denied the stance of former President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, expressed its willingness to succeed to the quad. Given that China’s check is the key to the US Indo-Pacific strategy, the Biden administration has also made it clear that it will use the Quad as a key link to curb China’s expansion.
Japan also positively expressed the Biden administration’s strong commitment to the free and open Indo-Pacific and Quad Council, saying that Secretary Kato Katsunobu welcomed the US presidency of the quad conference. Japanese media reported that the quad-participating summit is being promoted, but it seems that the conclusion has not been reached. Foreign Minister Motegi told reporters on the day that the ministers of the four countries agreed on the importance of cooperation at a normal level, but that a summit meeting has not yet been scheduled.
China strongly opposed Quad’s policy toward China. In a commentary on the 19th, the Global Times, a sister magazine of the People’s Daily, a journal of the Chinese Communist Party, said in a commentary on the 19th, “The Biden administration is trying to block China following the Trump era.” Criticized.
“President Biden intends to turn Quad into a full anti-Chinese club,” said Rong Zh-ze, vice president of the China Institute for International Studies, in an interview with the Global Times. Insisted.
However, although Quad held ministerial meetings and even conducted joint military exercises, it is questionable whether it will be able to coordinate enough to make a voice over regional issues, or if Quad can be institutionalized. There are reports that both Japan, India and Australia are economically entangled with China to a considerable degree, and India has shown a passive attitude at the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting to avoid excessive stimulus to China.
This is also related to Korea’s position. Already from the days of the Trump administration, there have been claims to expand the quad council to’Quad Plus’, which involved neighboring allies such as South Korea. The Korean government has shown a distant attitude that it has never been asked to participate in Quad Plus.
/Beijing = Correspondent Soomoon Choi [email protected]
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