US President Joe Biden today lifts the veil from Japan on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (Ipef), the ambitious investment plan and strengthening of commercial relations that will increase the US presence in the area and lay the foundations for the connection ‘between similar ‘with a view to containing China. “There will be concrete economic benefits for the countries that want to participate”, assures Biden. Instead, Beijing speaks of a “strategy doomed to fail”.
“There will be concrete economic benefits for the countries that want to participate in the new economic alliance in the Indo-Pacific region”, reiterates the American president in the meeting in Tokyo with the Japanese premier Fumio Kishida, on the sidelines of the bilateral summit that will precede the informal meeting of Quad with the participation of the leaders of India and Australia scheduled for tomorrow. In the second and final leg of his trip to Asia, Biden reiterated that the US is determined to defend Japanwith whom they maintain an alliance that they consider the “cornerstone” of peace and stability in the region
“The new economic platform will be introduced for hinder China’s expansionism, and will bring numerous benefits to the entire region “, added the US president on the sidelines of the meeting. At the beginning of the meeting open to the press, Biden also thanked Japan for siding with the West to preserve democratic values. ensuring the application of sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Prime Minister Kishida called for greater collaboration between the two countries to ensure peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. “Any use of force to alter the world order – continued Kishida, will not be tolerated”.
Biden further said he is standing “considering” the abolition of some trade duties on China, noting that they were not imposed by his administration. “We have not imposed any of these tariffs,” he replied at the joint press conference in Tokyo with the Japanese premier. “Their revocation is a measure under consideration,” he added.
The United States’ Indo-Pacific strategy of forming “small cliques in the name of freedom and openness” has the sole purpose of containing China and is doomed to fail. The Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, adding that if the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (Ipef), the ambitious investment plan and strengthening commercial relations in the area that the American president is preparing to launch today in Tokyo, “becomes a political tool for the US to safeguard its regional economic hegemony and deliberately exclude specific countries, it would be on the wrong track. “
At the press conference in Tokyo, BIden further said that the US would help Taiwan from a Chinese invasion.
Source: Ansa
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