US Seeks to Isolate China With Help of Allies, Rahm Emanuel Says
Source: Bloomberg
April 9, 2024 at 9:14 PM EDT
President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to reverse China’s attempts to isolate countries in Asia including the Philippines with help from Japan and other allies in the region, according to US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel.
“Our strategy is to flip that script, and make the isolated party China,” Emanuel said in Washington ahead of a summit between Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
The meeting, part of the first official visit by a Japanese leader to the US in nearly a decade, comes at a critical time in the bilateral relationship. The countries are seeking to step up cooperation on security in the Indo-Pacific region as China takes an increasingly assertive stance over disputed waters in the South China Sea.
The two leaders will hold an unprecedented trilateral summit with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday to discuss advancing three-way cooperation in strategic areas including security, emerging technologies and supply chains.
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This public outcry comes in the wake of a series of maritime disputes between the Philippines and China, including a recent confrontation where China used water cannons to disrupt a Philippine resupply mission to its soldiers stationed on a grounded warship at the Second Thomas Shoal.
Mong Palatino, a leader of the protest, articulated the demonstrators' demands, urging the Chinese government to vacate the West Philippine Sea, dismantle its "illegal structures," honor the 2016 arbitral tribunal ruling, and cease harassment of Filipino fishermen and supply missions.
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