Now, no one is sure that the White House under Donald Trump will maintain this trilateral framework of meetings, dialogue and consultations. For a long time, Mr. Trump has not been interested in non-bilateral forum frameworks, and does not attach importance to building a new political and security landscape in the Indo-Pacific region according to the architecture and guidance of America’s leader like Mr. Biden.
US President Joe Biden
Forming and promoting the trilateral dialogue mechanism between the US, Japan and the Philippines on security, military and defense politics is one of Mr. Biden’s outstanding foreign policy milestones in his soon-to-end term. This person raised the level of America’s strategic military alliance with Japan and South Korea and reached the US-UK-Australia trilateral agreement (AUKUS).
With the recent meeting with Mr. Ishiba and Mr. Marcos, President Biden intentionally affirmed this unique mark and at the same time reinforced the important strategic significance of the trilateral cooperation forum framework between the US, Japan and the Philippines. for America’s basic immediate and long-term strategic interests in East Asia, the Indo-Pacific region and for dealing with China. The more firmly this forum framework is consolidated and proven to be more practical, the more difficult it will be for Mr. Trump to neglect or cancel it. Because this framework really benefits the US, Mr. Trump will probably not eliminate it but operate it in another way to create his own mark.
