The U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Sullivan said at a 12-day press conference that during the U.S.-China High-Level Strategic Dialogue in Anchorage, Alaska, on the 18th, he will express U.S. concerns about “Chinese harassment around the Senkaku Islands (known in China as the Diaoyu Islands)” and China-India The U.S. will express U.S. concerns to the Chinese side regarding “Chinese harassment around the Senkaku Islands” and military tensions along the Sino-Indian border.
On March 10, the State Department issued a statement on its website stating that Secretary of State Blinken and National Security Advisor Sullivan will meet with Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, and State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on March 18 in Anchorage, Alaska, and will engage in a dialogue with the Chinese side on a range of issues.
At the Japan-U.S.-Australia-India summit held on the 12th, Chinese maritime police vessels were also said to have sailed into the area near the Diaoyu Islands, which Japan considers to be “territorial waters”.
The Japanese government released a news release on the 13th that Yoshihide Suga said at the Japan-U.S.-Australia-India summit video conference held on the evening of the 12th, regarding China’s Maritime Police Law, which allows the Marine Police Bureau to use weapons, “There are provisions here that are problematic from the point of view of international law, and I am deeply concerned about this.” He expressed “strong opposition to attempts to unilaterally change the status quo” regarding the situation in the East and South China Seas, where China is expanding its military power.
In March 16, the Japan-U.S. Foreign Affairs and Defense Cabinet Security Consultative Committee (2+2) meeting will be held in Tokyo, the meeting will be published in a joint document, has been coordinated to be explicitly included in the Chinese Maritime Police Bureau to allow the use of weapons “Marine Police Act” to express the “common deep concern” of Japan and the United States. The document will reaffirm that the Diaoyu Islands are the object of application of Article V of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which stipulates U.S. defense obligations. The last U.S.-Japan 2+2 meeting held in Washington in April 2019 also confirmed that the Diaoyu Islands are the subject of Article V of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, which stipulates U.S. defense obligations, but did not name China, which is rare in a joint U.S.-Japan document.
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