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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s visit to the United States in April has been raised. If true, it is the first foreign summit visit to the White House after the launch of the’Biden’. Following the visit of the head of diplomacy and security in Japan on the 15th to 17th, cooperation between the United States and Japan is becoming more close.
Some analyzes whether the US is tilting the’balance weight’ of the Korea-Japan alliance toward Japan.
On the 7th (local time), Axios, an online media in the US, quoted a source and released a report by Prime Minister Suga’s visit to the United States in April. Axios predicted that Prime Minister Suga’s visit to the White House would show off to allies, China and potential adversaries that the U.S.-Japan alliance is the “core axis” of the Pacific security system.
Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun also quoted an official from the US and Japan on the 8th, saying that President Biden has begun reviewing the plan to hold the US-Japan summit with Prime Minister Suga as his first face-to-face diplomacy after taking office. The Yomiuri Shimbun cited △strengthening of the US-Japan alliance, △the issue of securing maritime safety in the South and South China Seas conscious of China, △partnership measures to realize a’free and open Indo-Pacific’.
A diplomatic source related to a series of reports pointed to News 1, “It is known that Prime Minister Suga is under pressure for performance such as the Olympics and the economy.”
However, both the US and Japanese governments are taking a cautious stance. However, there are some observations that it is remarkable that there was no direct response such as’different from the truth’ or’misleading’.
According to Axios, the White House refused to confirm the visit of Prime Minister Suga. Japanese government spokesman Kato Katsunobu also announced at a press conference this morning that “the specific schedule has not been set at this time,” and announced that it is planning to adjust the situation as soon as possible by examining the situation of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
The US policy of focusing on Japan was not yesterday and today. In 2009, former President Barack Obama first invited then-Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso to the White House after taking office.
As the Biden administration is in the same Democratic Party regime as former President Obama, the precedent for Prime Minister Aso’s visit to the United States is worth looking back.
It is pointed out that a’temperature difference’ is detected from cooperation between the United States and the United States as cooperation and cooperation between the United States and the United States are getting closer.
In particular, there are observations that the weight of the United States has already leaned on Japan, such as △the early morning call between the U.S. and Japan, which took place before Korea, △a one year extension of the special agreement on defense costs between the United States and Japan, which is faster than Korea, and △the first thing in the case of Myanmar crisis.
In addition, there are observations that if Korea’s’strategic ambiguity’ position is maintained amid the US-China hegemony competition,’the US-Japan adherence’ will become even more fixed.
Representatively, the Biden administration is discussing major issues in the international community with the banner of’Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ and’Quad’ (US, Japan, Australia, India Participating Security Council). It is reported that the first quad summit in history will be held in mid-March.
Moon Sung-mook, head of the Unification Strategy Center at the Korea Institute for National Strategy, said, “The government has been wary of expanding interpretation of cases such as the case that the US-Japan normal currency takes place before the ROK-US normal currency, but the important thing is that sincerity is expressed through words and actions,” said President Moon Jae-in’s visit to the US “It means that Japan’s rumors of visiting the United States cannot be overlooked in the end (contribution as an alliance) and the reciprocity aspect cannot be overlooked,” he said.