Joe Biden will visit Japan and South Korea on his first Asian trip as U.S. president, carrying a clear message to China to not try what Russia did in Ukraine anywhere in Asia, and especially not in Taiwan
Similarly, there's little public strategy to counter Beijing's no-COVID lockdown policy that some economists believe could provoke a global recession.
"The president's lucky in who he has as counterparts," said Michael Green, an Asia specialist at the Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies. "I was doing the math on this, and it's been at least 20 years since an American president could travel to Japan and Korea and count on the leaders in both countries being so forthrightly pro-alliance.
In Japan, Biden will meet prime ministers from the other three members of the "Quad" group: Kishida of Japan, Narendra Modi of India and whoever wins what is expected to be a tight election in Australia on Saturday.While not a military alliance like NATO for Europe, Washington sees the informal grouping as key to cementing pro-democratic values.
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