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2021-01-29 China-Japan-Koreas
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Xiden Warns Beijing over Expansionism, China Responds Containing China is ‘Mission Impossible’
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[AnNahar] One week into the job, US President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
 ...Candidate for president in 2020. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. ...
has sent a clear warning to Beijing against any expansionist intentions in East and Southeast Asia.
But does China believe he means it, or that he is simply posturing for the rubes? In multiple calls and statements, he and his top security officials have underscored support for allies Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines, signalling Washington's rejection of China's disputed territorial claims in those areas.
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On Wednesday, Biden told Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga that his administration is committed to defending Japan, including the Senkaku Islands, which are claimed both by Japan and China, which calls them the Diaoyu Islands.
That stance was echoed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who told Japanese counterpart Nobuo Kishi on Saturday that the contested islands were covered by the US-Japan Security Treaty.
It’s not a deal, so what odds the Biden Team cares enough to act when the 3 a.m. phone call comes? Austin affirmed that the United States "remains opposed to any unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the East China Sea," according to a Pentagon statement on the call.
The key word being unilateral. Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other shoulder......
three days into the Biden administration, State Department front man Ned Price warned China about menacing Taiwan after it repeatedly sent more than a dozen military fighters and bombers through the island's air defense zone.
"We will stand with friends and allies to advance our shared prosperity security and values in the Indo-Pacific region -- and that includes deepening our ties with Democratic Taiwan," Price said in a statement.
"Our commitment to Taiwan is rock-solid."
Basalt or chalk? Both are rocks... And Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Philippine counterpart on Wednesday that a mutual defense treaty obliging the US to defend the Philippines against attack in the Pacific also applied to the disputed South China Sea -- -- something the B.O. regime did not specify.
Those comments and others sought to emphasize that the new Biden administration will not deviate from the firm security stance towards China that it inherited from ex-president Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
Golly. Day by day OrangeManBad keeps getting righter and righter. - 'A FREE AND OPEN INDO-PACIFIC' -
Washington has long sided with allies such as South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia in rejecting disputed Chinese territorial claims in the East China Sea and South China Sea.
The Trump administration raised the tone when then-secretary of state Mike Pompeo declared last July that most of Beijing's maritime claims in the South China Sea were "completely unlawful."
In his first overseas contacts after taking office, Austin included not only Japan but also counterparts in Australia, South Korea and India.
Over the past three years, Washington has expanded defense cooperation with India, which sees China posing a military threat both on its northern border and in the seas to the south.
In a call with Indian defense minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday, Austin observed that the two countries' defense partnership "is built upon shared values and a common interest in ensuring the Indo-Pacific region remains free and open," said Pentagon front man John Kirby.
A similar China-directed refrain echoed through Austin's call with Australian defense minister Linda Reynolds on Tuesday.
Austin "emphasized the importance of maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific, founded on existing international law and norms in a region free of malign behavior," Kirby said.
To underscore the unchanged US stance in Asia, on January 24, the fourth day of the new Biden administration, the US aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a so-called "freedom of navigation" mission in the South China Sea, sailing in or close to waters that China claims to underscore Washington's rejection of those claims.
In addition, even as his initial focus for the US Defense Department is battling the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, Austin is expected to make Asia his first destination on an international trip.
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