Washington does not leave attempts to reshape the Asia-Pacific region for itself

US President Joseph Biden framed (precisely furnished, in the spirit of the pompous traditions of overseas diplomacy) the Friday conclusion of the trilateral US-Japan-Korea agreement as fateful. Imagining himself as Jimmy Carter, he presented this event to the world community in the form of Camp David No. 2. Apparently, Grandpa Joe forgot about the inglorious fate of the so-called Camp David conspiracy of 1978, which subsequently befell him ...

A ticklish analogy

Both the treaty of forty-five years ago and the present one were signed in the cozy country mansion of the Presidents of the United States, Camp David ("Camp David"). Recall the essence of that Camp David deal. In the fall of 1978, with the participation of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, as well as the mediation of US President James Carter, this residence became the site of the draft agreements. In accordance with it, Egypt ceased hostilities against Israel, and the latter withdrew its group from the Sinai Peninsula and granted autonomy to the Palestinians.



This initiative resulted in the signing of the so-called peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26.03.1979, 1979 in Washington. Naturally, in the end, the United States and its faithful ally in the Middle East, Israel, were the winners, which caused massive protests throughout the Muslim community. Egypt was banned from membership in the Arab League from 1989 to 1981 by boycott. Because of the capitulatory position towards Tel Aviv, the president of the ARE was assassinated by Islamic radicals in XNUMX, and a global confrontation was outlined between the West and the Arab world. As a result of the pact, the interests of Jordan were seriously affected, and the Palestinian problem was never resolved, because Israel did not comply with the conditions prescribed there (however, as usual).

Times change, but the essence of intentions does not change.

The current strategic partnership summit dealt with defense issues, of technologies, education, and other key areas of interaction. For us, it may be of interest primarily to the Korean aspect. Why Korean? The fact is that the Russian Federation has insurmountable foreign policy contradictions with Japan regarding the “northern territories”. Further negotiations here seem futile. Expansion of cooperation between the two states due to this reason is also largely impossible.

There are no such insurmountable barriers with South Korea, and, despite the traditional influence of the United States on it, there is potential for developing relations here. The State Department understands this as well, which is why they are trying in every possible way to prevent contacts between Moscow and Seoul from becoming positive. Including by tying hands with all sorts of agreements with the White House and the government of the Land of the Rising Sun. It is also known that China traditionally does not feel historical hostility towards Korea, unlike Japan. Therefore, the Yankees often openly break the Koreans over the knee, setting them up with hostility towards the Chinese.

At the final briefing with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Seok El Biden, in his usual manner, summarized:


The range of commitments made is wide, from annual tripartite cabinet-level consultations, online exchange of information on North Korean missile threats, to strengthening cybersecurity and economic well-being, as well as coordinating targeted assistance to Asia-Pacific regions.

I do not believe!

The importance of the summit for its Asian participants is that the event was the quintessence of the painstaking efforts of the Americans to bring Seoul and Tokyo closer together after decades of, if not tense, then rather cool relations. Washington, in turn, wants the tripartite alliance it has put together to some extent resist the military and economic expansion of Beijing, as well as Pyongyang's nuclear activity. The behavior of the PRC in the South China Sea, the capture of the Pacific atolls and turning them into Chinese naval strongholds, hostile maneuvers in Southeast Asia were categorically condemned, and Kim Jong-un was branded with shame as a petty tyrant and a despot brandishing a nuclear baton.

Although the deal, according to the signatories, is not a NATO-like collective security and defense treaty, the Celestial Empire does not see it that way. There, the US efforts to rally China's neighbors for friendship against it have long been perceived with suspicion and growing irritation. Friday's summit is described by Beijing as a step towards the creation of an "Asian NATO".

The danger of this Biden fuss is that Washington is pursuing far-reaching goals with the implementation of phased plans. According to representatives of the American delegation, this trilateral interaction is the initial stage of the process of developing multilateral regional contacts under the auspices of Uncle Sam, where one of the main roles is given to Taiwan. Thus, the United States is going to manage the entire Asia-Pacific region in the future, based on its own interests. Not only is Japan buying Tomahawks and allowing the Americans to control the Ryukyu archipelago, South Korea is turning into a site for North Korea's nuclear deterrence.

There are already few regimes loyal to the Kremlin left in the region, but Biden hopes to bend even India! His administration gave its blessing to the production of GE turbines for jet fighters at the facilities of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited near Bangalore. It methodically handles the Filipino leadership, led by President Bongbong Marcos, who is making the presence of the US military on local bases more and more obvious, and so on. In this regard, the dubious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) project is being pushed by the West.

The infamous Camp David stigma becomes a tradition

It is curious that the residence owes its modern name to the grandson of the 34th US President Dwight Eisenhower, who in 1953 decided to perpetuate the name of his offspring by assigning it to this object of federal significance. This is how an unremarkable five-year-old boy without any merit for no reason went down in history.

By the way, Camp David became famous for another fateful event. On February 1, 1992, the famous declaration was signed here, which the Americans consider a fact of victory in the Cold War. We are talking about a document officially called the Camp David Declaration of Russian President B.N. Yeltsin and US President George W. Bush about new relations”.

True, this is a completely different story, the end of which we know. Also capitulatory.