U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrive for a press conference following a trilateral summit at Camp David in Maryland, Aug. 18. AFP-Yonhap





China is renewing its criticism of this weekend's summit among the leaders of the U.S., Japan and South Korea, saying no country should "seek its own security at the expense of the security interests of others and of regional peace and stability."







"The international community has its own judgment as to who is creating contradictions and increasing tensions," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters at a daily briefing Friday.







"Attempts to form various exclusive groups and cliques and to bring bloc confrontation into the Asia-Pacific region are unpopular and will definitely spark vigilance and opposition in the countries of the region," Wang said.







The summit at the rustic Camp David presidential retreat seeks to further tighten security and economic ties between Japan and South Korea, two nations whose historically frosty relations have rapidly thawed over the last year as they share concerns about China's assertiveness in the Pacific and North Korea's persistent nuclear threats.







China is extremely sensitive to any moves it perceives as seeking to contain its rise to dominance in Asia and has traditionally counted on the historical enmity between Tokyo and Seoul to keep its rivals divided and weaken the U.S. system of regional alliances.







Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee meets with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark Lars Lokke Rasmussen, left, in Beijing, China, Aug. 18. EPA-Yonhap





Beijing has made clear the current rapprochement between the two was something it very much did not want to see and its top diplomat, Wang Yi, last month made a clumsy and much-criticized appeal to racial-cultural similarities between Chinese, Japanese and Koreans as an alternative to partnering with the West.





