Biden announced new economic partnerships in Asia and warned China

The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (Indo-Pacific Economic FrameworkIPEF) is not a free trade agreement, but provides further integration between its member countries in four key areas: the digital economy, supply chains, green energy and the fight against corruption.

The United States and Japan, along with 11 other countries, will launch the Indo-Pacific Economic FrameworkBiden said at a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

It is a commitment to work with our closest friends and partners in the region, on the challenges that matter most to ensure economic competitiveness in 21^at centuryadded the president of America.

The partners Biden is referring to are Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. .

More details atIPEFEconomic framework for the Indo-Pacific will be announced later on Monday.

A counterweight in China

This American initiative appears clearly intended to offer the Asia-Pacific an alternative to China, the world’s second-largest economic power with growing influence in the region.

Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden’s national security adviser, confirmed that it was a open platformbecause it was designed and defined as such, but Beijing feels deliberately excluded and informed of it.

looking for Washington to form small groups in the name of freedom and openness hope contains chinaslammed Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday, considering the American project doomed in failure.

Under Donald Trump, Mr. Biden’s predecessor in the White House, the United States withdrew in 2017 from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a broad multilateral free trade agreement that was the subject of a new agreement in 2018 when no Washington.

Mr. Biden also clarified that he has no intention of reviving major free trade agreements, in the face of American public opinion that primarily sees these agreements as a threat to jobs in the United States.

The 46^at However, the American president stressed that his administration could remove some tariff barriers imposed on China by Donald Trump. We have not imposed barriers on this tariffhe said when asked by the press about the possibility of lifting them, and added that their lifting was to study.

The US is ready to defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion

Joe Biden also stressed that the military will defend Taiwan the United States if Beijing invades the island on its own.

This is the promise we madehe told Mr. Biden when asked at a press conference whether the United States would intervene militarily against an attempt by China to seize this territory by force.

We agreed on a Chinese policy, we signed it […]but the idea that [Taïwan] can be taken by force is not appropriatehe said.

The Chinese is flirting with danger now flying very close [de Taïwan] and in all the maneuvers they performlamented Mr. Biden.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that Japan and the United States will monitor the recent activities of the Chinese Navy, as well as movements related to the joint exercises of China and Russia.

We strongly oppose attempts to change the status quo by force in the East China Sea and South China Sea.said Mr. Kishida.

In addition, we have agreed to cooperate on various issues related to China, including human rights.He added.

Also referring to Russia, Joe Biden said he needed to pay a long -term price for him barbarism in Ukraine in terms of sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies.

It’s not just about Ukraine, said the president of America. Because if has not upheld sanctions in many ways, so what signal will it send to China about the value of attempting to take Taiwan by force?

It is said to expect such an attack to have no no placeMr. Biden said, however, that it depended of the force by which the world clarifies to China the price it has to pay in case of an invasion.

With information from Reuters