Leading Foreign Policy Analysts Warn This Week’s Summit Marks a Critical Turning Point in Asian Geopolitics

This combination of pictures created on April 10, 2024 shows Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (L) in Canberra on February 29, 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 9, 2024 and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on March 28, 2024.

Thursday’s landmark summit triggered a lot of discussion among prominent foreign policy analysts in the U.S., Asia, and Europe about the importance of this gathering and why the timing is so critical:

  • A DEEPER GEOPOLITICAL DIVIDE: The net effect of this is not so much a stable peace, but a deepening geopolitical divide between the U.S.-allied network on the one hand, and China, North Korea and Russia on the other hand. — James Park, Research Associate at the Quincy Institute (RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT)
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