PROPAGANDA. Biden's inducements for division will not pass muster in East Asia: China Daily editorial

 via China Daily

That the United States president has chosen to travel to Asia, instead of Europe where the US' European allies are struggling to cope with the collateral damage of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, reveals the importance that Asia has in Washington's strategic calculations.

As Joe Biden told ROK President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the US presence in and commitment to the Indo-Pacific, as Washington insists on calling it, are solid and future-oriented. And as multiple US officials have confirmed, and international observers have pointed out, Washington's every recent diplomatic maneuver in the region has a perceived threat from China behind it.

Much of the rhetoric about cementing US-ROK and US-Japan alliances, as well as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, which is to be unveiled on Monday, sounds targeted mostly at China.

Unfortunately, this is no longer a solo refrain by Washington. The new leaders in both Seoul and Tokyo appear enthusiastically receptive to Washington's plans for the area, which is obviously poisonous to the peace and harmony that have been cultivated in the Asia-Pacific over the past decades.

What Washington is offering revolves around the main thread of excluding China from the region's longstanding, vibrant economic network, which will inevitably divide and disrupt the regional economic landscape. What Biden is offering, however, can hardly compensate for what the two US allies are guaranteed to lose going forward. And that loss will not only be economic.

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