Quad summit held for the first time on the 12th…the US-led anti-China alliance is on the rise

Korea’s Quad Plus Pressure Instrument Possibility
US-China high-level talks under water contact
North Korea policy also mentioned at the quad conference
High-ranking officials “Come out next month as soon as the US policy toward North Korea”

[아시아경제 뉴욕=백종민 특파원, 이현우 기자] On the 12th, the first anti-China security alliance’quad’ summit led by the US will be held. It is reported that the North Korean issue will be discussed at this meeting, as Joe Biden’s US administration’s public pressure is expected to intensify in earnest.

White House spokesman Jen Saki said at a regular briefing held on the 9th (local time) that President Biden will be attending a video conference with the leaders of the quad participants on the 12th. Saki said the meeting will show the importance that President Biden has placed on alliances and partners in the Indo-Pacific region.

The attendees of the conference are President Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

This is the first time that a quad-country summit has been held. The summit, which was not held even during the former administration of Donald Trump, who led the quad, is interpreted as a consensus among participating countries that China should be cut off in the Indo-Pacific region.

President Biden is in the form of accelerating anti-China solidarity even further after pointing to China as the core of US foreign and security policy through the latest provisional national security guidelines. Biden’s administration is rebelling against former President Trump’s foreign policy stance, but is expressing its willingness to succeed and develop to the extent that it is evaluated as the foundation of India-Pacific policy.

Along with the holding of the Quad Summit, the pressure on Korea to participate in’Quad Plus’ is expected to become visible. State Department spokesman Ned Price said at the briefing today that questions about Korea’s participation in the quad and expanding the role of the Indo-Pacific region “have nothing to predict or announce.” Mentioned.

The Biden administration also maintains its position to expand the Quad to Quad Plus, following the former Trump administration. In Mizoya, when expanding Quad to Quad Plus, Korea, New Zealand, and Vietnam are being discussed as participating countries.

“We share a lot of concerns, including the North Korean challenge and the free and open Indo-Pacific,” said a spokesperson for Price, showing the view that the North Korean issue could be linked to the Quad. A major foreign press quoted a source on the day and predicted that the North Korean issue would be dealt with at the Quad Summit. This can be interpreted with the intention of joining South Korea to Quad Plus through North Korea as a medium.

In the midst of this, the Hong Kong South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the US and China are discussing to hold high-level talks on the same day, and that they are continuing to make contact under water on a working-line basis, citing a remark from a source. The expected place for the bilateral talks is Alaska.

If successful, it will be the first high-level talks between the two countries since the inauguration of the Biden administration. In the United States, Secretary of State Tony Blincoln, and in China, the Communist Party’s diplomatic politician Yang Jietsu and Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, are likely to hold ministerial-level talks, SCMP said.

It is known that the US will soon finish the inspection of its North Korean policy. A major foreign press reported that a senior U.S. government official said that the U.S. government is undergoing a very intensive (North Korea) strategy review and that it could possibly be completed as early as next month.

An official explained that most of the people who started to review North Korea policies were those who had experience in diplomatic negotiations with North Korea since the 1990s, and “I expect that (probably (the reviewers of North Korea strategy) will be made based on past experience.”

New York = correspondent Baek Jong-min [email protected] Reporter Lee Hyun-woo [email protected]