Welcome to Elite Everyone.

I'm Bianca Gola Drega in for Jake Tapper.

You've been listening and watching a news conference at the conclusion of President Biden's

first ever trilateral summit with the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of South Korea.

In this meeting, the leaders agreed to a commitment to conduct annual military exercises and

to continue their conversations by holding a summit together every year.

Let's bring in CNN's Arlette Science, who is live from Camp David, CNN's Chief National

Security Correspondent Jim Sudo and CNN's Paula Hancock's reporting from Seoul, South

Korea.

Jim, let's start with you.

So in addition to those agreements, they also agreed to establish a new crisis hotline

and tighter economic cooperation to quote the President.

This was a big deal.

Yeah.

And the President also said this is not about China.

He said it's about the relationship among these three nations, but the truth is China is

very much a unifying threat for the U.S., South Korea, and Japan.

And when you look at each of these steps here, these annual multi-domain exercises among

the three nations, the enhanced ballistic missile defense, as well as this hotline, this

agreement to consult with each other about how they're going to respond to threats.

Those all relate not just to North Korea, North Korean missiles, North Korean military

buildup, and North Korean threats, but very much to China.

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