Leaders of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines met virtually on Jan. 12 to further strengthen their cooperation under a trilateral framework created amid the Chinese communist regime’s increasingly aggressive posturing in the Indo–Pacific.
President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. discussed trilateral maritime security and economic cooperation, as well as China’s “dangerous and unlawful behavior in the South China Sea,” according to a White House readout.
