CHINA'S RABID RESPONSES ON INITIAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF UNITED STATES-JAPAN- SOUTH KOREA TRILATERAL

China has rabidly gone "ballistic' in its responses to the Joint Communique issued after the historic Camp David Summit last week after parleys between US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, indicating initial 'Institutionalizing' of security cooperation & coordination between these three powerful Nations o China's doorsteps.

Analyzed in my preceding post was the striking conclusion that any 'institutionalizing' of the Trilateral would in effect be a one more significant step by the United States in the 'Containment of China'. This Trilateral, long in coming, however, marks a 'turning point' in the security environment of Western Pacific, adding a much-needed security layer to QUAD and AUKUS.

China's rabid responses on this momentous China-centric containment initiative was not only confined to criticism of the Trilateral but also included derisive "Racist Remarks" by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi aimed at Japan and South Korea.

Chinese Foreign Ministry official reaction was that the United States-Japan-South Korea Trilateral was a 'Mini- NATO Style' military alliance aimed at containment of China. It further added that such efforts were bound to fail, and the world should note how the United States is worsening security environment in the Pacific.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was downright racists and derisive against Japan and South Korea joining the Trilateral. Sarcastically, Chinese Foreign Minister as quoted in media asserted "No matter how yellow you dye your hair, or how sharp you make your nose, you'll never turn into a European or American. You'll never be a Westerner"

Certainly, uncalled for racist remarks against Japan & South Korea's teaming up for Trilateral of security coordination of defence efforts against China Threat.

In run-up to the Trilateral Summit, China indulged in military signaling of disapproval by sending a Joint Flotilla of 11 Ships of Chinese Navy and Russian Navy to waters around Okinawa Island.

Before concluding, it would be pertinent to point out that the Trilateral Summit Communique did not confine the scope of institutionalizing to security matters but also to economic cooperation and intensification of 'people to peoples' exchanges.

The last two could be expected to add more confidence-building initiatives to the so-far 'estranged relationship' between Japan and South Korea.

China is expecting that ultimately domestic politics within Japan and South Korea would fray the Trilateral cohesion. China can be expected to indulge in 'Influence Operations' in Japan and South Korea for 'divisions' to emerge and break the Trilateral Alliance evolving in firmer contours,

China is unlikely to make much headway in this direction, simply, because post-Ukraine and China's threatening moves on Taiwan Military Invasion, deep-rooted 'strategic distrust' of China is a marked sentiment which has impelled Japan and South Korea to cast aside their past historical recriminations. 

Concluding, it is my assessment that the United States-Japan- South Korea Trilateral Alliance will not only survive, but also evolve with firmer contours, with China, on present indicators, not desisting from destabilization of the Western Pacific, more pointedly, it challenges United States predominance in the Pacific.