The Promise of Camp David: Trilateral Summit Is a Watershed for Asian Security
By Patrick M. Cronin [Asia-Pacific Security Chair, Hudson Institute and Scholar in Residence, Carnegie Mellon University]
►The Camp David summit elevates trilateral cooperation simply by being the main reason the three leaders are convening.
►While threats posed by North Korea remain the central adhesive for concerted action by South Korea, the United States, and Japan, the agenda for trilateral cooperation is increasingly moving beyond defense to building order and promoting prosperity.
►The determination of President Yoon Suk-yeol and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida remains the key to driving a new order forward, converting a traditionally brittle bilateral relationship into a building block of wider multilateral rule-setting and institution building.
