President Biden's new Indo-Pacific Order, IPEP, has been shown to have a "maximizing" effect in Japan's response to China. The U.S.-Japan summit agreed on the 23rd that the U.S. would support Japan as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and that the U.S.-Japan system would directly operate in response to North Korea. The US-Japan summit, in particular, agreed to hold the “2+2” economic..