This is CBS I On The World with John Bacheler.

Here's John Bacheler.

It is called Zeropus, and I welcome Josh Rogan of the Washington Post Global opinion,

to both interpret Zeropus and tell us the significance of several meetings taking place in Tokyo

at the same time Secretary Anthony Blinken was in Beijing,

meeting with leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

Josh, a very good day to you, Zeropus.

Let me guess, I got the Japan part, that's at first, and the US is at the end,

but the RPO in between, R-O-P.

I'm lost here.

You tell me there are many, many laterals that are an achievement for Andrews,

for Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor.

What happened in Tokyo that we didn't see at the time watching Beijing?

Good evening to you.

You're absolutely right that while the world was fixated on Anthony Blinken's Beijing trip,

there was something actually much more important going on over in Tokyo,

which is that National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, was meeting with his counterparts

from Japan, the Philippines and South Korea, in sets of twos and threes,

in a really kind of unprecedented way.

And that's the missing piece of Zeropus.

It's Japan, J-A, Republic of Philippines, R-O-P,

and then the United States, US.

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