Biden Arrives At Camp David Ahead Of Key Trilateral Summit

US President Joe Biden is shortly due to arrive at Camp David, Maryland, ahead of tomorrow's landmark trilateral summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

• Biden administration officials have promised a raft of deliverables from the summit including closer military and economic ties and the formalisation of the summit as a yearly occurrence.
• A workable bilateral relationship between South Korea and Japan is considered central to the Biden administration's long-term strategy in the Indo-Pacific region, which includes closer defence coordination with allies and steps to China's growing regional influence.
• Should the summit lead to an institutionalisation of normalised relations between Seoul and Tokyo, overcoming decades of historical animosity, it would likely be the flagship foreign policy win of Biden's first term in the White House.
• Reuters reports: "The Biden administration believes that a seismic but fragile realignment is underway in East Asia: a deeper relationship between two close U.S. allies with a long history of mutual acrimony and distrust. The change would accelerate Washington's effort to counter China's influence in the region..."