"Cold War Tensions at Camp David Drive the World into a Chill"

On the 20th, Chinese state media criticized the trilateral summit between South Korea, the United States, and Japan, which agreed to strengthen security cooperation, saying, "The Cold War atmosphere emanating from Camp David is plunging the entire world into a chill."

State news agency Xinhua stated in a commentary on the 20th, "Led by the United States, the three countries are creating a closed and exclusive geopolitical clique under the banner of 'security protection,' damaging regional strategic security and threatening peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific."

President Yoon Suk-yeol, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida [Image source=Yonhap News]

It also accused the leaders of South Korea, the United States, and Japan of deliberately spreading the falsehood of a 'China threat.' "The U.S. drawing South Korea and Japan into security cooperation disregards the security of the two countries and puts them in dangerous situations," it claimed. "Rather than providing a sense of security to South Korea and Japan, it raises regional security risks and tensions, ultimately harming South Korea and Japan."

In particular, after introducing reports from some South Korean media that Korea’s security could become more unstable if caught up in the U.S.'s new Cold War, it emphasized, "Whether it is tensions on the Korean Peninsula or the baseless threat from China, both are inseparable from U.S. provocations," and stressed, "The real threat to regional security is, in fact, the United States."

It also argued that the U.S.'s strong push for the Indo-Pacific strategy will destroy effective regional cooperation structures and undermine the trend of peaceful development jointly created by regional countries over decades.

The agency stated, "Exchanges between countries should help increase understanding and trust and maintain peace and stability," and emphasized, "The United States should abandon attempts to disrupt the Asia-Pacific, and South Korea and Japan should not become pawns of U.S. hegemony. We advise them not to stand on the side of confrontation and historical mistakes against the overwhelming majority of countries in the region."

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