With Secretary Blinken working towards Biden’s “thaw” with China another top official seems to be taking a different path.
White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan was in Tokyo Thursday for a meeting with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea.
The focus maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, plus the East China and South China Seas. It’s a hot-button issue for Beijing as it ramps up influence and military development in the region and maintains its claim on Taiwan.
According to a U.S. statement, the officials also covered technology, energy security, and “countering economic coercion”—plus North Korea’s “illicit nuclear and missile programs.”