United States President Joe Biden is hosting Japan’s Fumio Kishida and South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol for a summit in a bold departure for a relationship that’s often been backward-looking, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.
behind them. A flurry of meetings - beers in Tokyo, “bomb shot" cocktails in Seoul and an invite to the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima - have brought the leaders closer than Washington could have hoped.
Even in its own self-interest, Japan must find a way to reciprocate and ensure Yoon gets something from the detente. Biden’s presence has helped provide a backdrop of stability that is a marked difference to his predecessor’s haphazard foreign policy in Asia. But there’s a real chance that Donald Trump might return to the White House, bringing one or both of his “fire and fury” or “love letter” approaches to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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