President Yun 'unacceptable change of force in Asia' at ASEAN summit

At an international summit led by Southeast Asian leaders, President Yun Seok-yeol said, "A unilateral attempt to maintain the status quo in the Asian region by force of force amid tensions over the South China Sea, Taiwan, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine will never be tolerated."
Unlike Yoon, President Biden said, "Together, we will address the biggest challenges of our time, from climate to health and security, and defend against grave threats to the rules-based order."
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida said in a separate meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that Japan and China should work to build a "constructive and stable relationship," Reuters reported.
Reuters reported on the summit meeting in Phnom Penh on the 12th, and the article by South Korean President Yoon was titled <South Korea's Yoon says forced change in Indo-Pacific is unacceptable>. did.
The New York Times reported, “President Biden told the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Cambodia on the 12th that the United States is committed to deepening ‘peace and prosperity throughout the region’ by protecting it from threats such as climate change and the economic aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “I bet that attending the ASEAN meeting in Phnom Penh in person will help ASEAN countries to strengthen the administration’s broader efforts to respond to the rise of China by promoting human rights in countries where democracy is suppressed even in accepting economic relations with China.” reported that day.
"For all one billion people, we will build a better future that we all want to see," Biden said at the third ASEAN summit meeting (twice as vice president).
Regarding the ASEAN summit's remarks, Reuters said, "A unilateral attempt to change the status quo in the Asian region by force in the midst of tensions over the South China Sea, Taiwan, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine is unacceptable," said President Yoon Seok-yeol. He said that the Indo-Pacific Strategy aims to foster a 'free, peaceful and prosperous' region built on a rules-based order."
"Peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region are directly linked to our survival and prosperity," President Yoon said in the opening remarks of the summit. We will strengthen the global supply chain resilience and economic security by strengthening the U.S. security adviser Jake Sullivan, who visited Phnom Penh on the same day, told reporters that "Biden will work with ASEAN leaders to address issues such as freedom of navigation and illegal and unregulated fishing in China to demonstrate the U.S. offensive against China." "As a stabilizing force in the region, the US is playing a key role in preventing any one country from engaging in 'continuous threats and coercion fundamentally unfavorable to ASEAN and other countries'," he said.
"Freedom of navigation is a dispute over the South China Sea, and the United States says it can sail and fly wherever international law allows, and China considers such a mission unstable," the Associated Press reported. Sullivan continued to refer to the People's Republic of China to reporters on board at Air Force, saying, "China may not like that, but we certainly acknowledge and understand it."
The AP said that the ASEAN-Korea summit in Phnom Penh on the 12th was in preparation for a separate summit at the G20 world's largest economy summit on Bali between Biden and Xi Jinping on the 14th.
"President Joe Biden on the 12th promised leaders that the United States would cooperate with strategically important ASEAN," The Associated Press reported. ' he said," he reported.
President Biden said of the ASEAN Stability Summit that the ten-nation bloc was "the core of our administration's Indo-Pacific strategy" and suggested cooperation in building a region "free, open, stable, prosperous, resilient and secure."
“I look forward to continuing to work with ASEAN and each of you to deepen peace and prosperity throughout the region to address the challenges from the South China Sea to Myanmar and to find innovative solutions to our common challenges,” Biden said. health and security'.

At the ASEAN+3 (Korea, China, Japan) summit in Phnom Penh, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, "We will firmly implement a mutually beneficial and win-win opening strategy, keep the correct direction of economic globalization, and promote liberalization and convenience in trade and investment." It will bring new and greater development opportunities to countries around the world," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China said on the 13th.
The presidential office said on the 12th that the interpretation of President Yoon's 'one-sided change of the status quo by force should never be tolerated' as 'targeted to China' was "a general remark rather than aimed at a specific country."

A high-ranking official from the presidential office in Phnom Penh said, "From the U.S. point of view, South Korea may or may not meet the expectations of the United States." Yes, the pro-Republican strategy showed a gap with the Biden Democrat policy.
Yonhap News reported that Kim Seong-han, head of the National Security Office, told reporters on the same day, "The Yun Seok-yeol administration will be the first to reflect the protection of universal values ​​such as freedom, human rights, and the rule of law as a key element of its foreign strategy and declare it in a clear tone both internally and externally." It does not mean that we are selling or rejecting countries that do not do so. It means that we will cooperate with the goal of the common interest with an open attitude, but will respond decisively to attempts to undermine universal values."

White House Security Adviser Sullivan, traveling to Indonesia from Phnom Penh, told reporters, "The president thinks the US and China are in fierce competition, but he said that the competition should not turn into a conflict or confrontation. there," he said.

He continued, "The visit to Cambodia showed a 'significant demand signal' for US intervention (Asia), and I think the US midterm election results in which the Democrats trampled on the Republican party's 'red wave' hopes will give him a strong position on the international stage. do,” he said.