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this camp david summit and the commitment to institutionalize relations to have annual meetings at the summit leadership level, to have coordinated enhanced military exercises and focus on interoperability of the military and the like, we re hoping to have this really stick. that it can withstand any political or public pushback that may happen in the future. this meeting comes as north korea appears to have developed a missile with russia s cooperation. what message are these leaders hoping to send to china, russia and north korea? well, sending a strong message. the message is even though the u.s. doesn t like to say this, it is a kind of asian mini nato. and part of the reason that
north korea and china and even russia s foreign policy in asia has been successful is because the u.s. two closest allies in asia, japan and south korea, didn t get along with each other. they got along great with us. but not with each other. the fact that we have achieved this rapprochement, which is something only the u.s. can do, is a real shot in the arm for american diplomacy in asia and a setback to china, which i think is the, you know, one of the goals here. and peter, just the fact this is being held at camp david is important. there is a message in that message itself, right? absolutely. camp david has historically been used by presidents as a tool of diplomacy. you are somebody important to me, we re going to showcase you in a way i don t showcase every leader. president biden hasn t had any leaders, foreign leaders, to camp david throughout his presidency. so it is meant to send a signal
how do you see that possibly turning out? i probably shouldn t have used that phrase. that s the phrase in peter s very good story today that the chinese embassy used to describe what is going on here. but we do want to have a kind of military alliance. we do our commitment to taiwan is historic in some ways, even though as it has been said it is not technically a nation anymore. i think that what we want from a military perspective is to have an alliance between japan and south korea as peter mentioned, there are now military relationships that a hot line we have been talking about. that will only fortify american strength in asia, and this is all part of the so-called rebalance to asia that the obama administration started. it is an acknowledgement there has been a sea change in where power on the planet lies and we
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