The new trilateral adds to recent regional groupings which Beijing views as targeted towards it.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said Tokyo and Manila “should not engage in trilateral cooperation at the expense of the interests of other countries”.
US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr had earlier issued a joint vision statement afterWhile the statement committed the three partners to boost cooperation on economic development, technology and climate change, among other things, analysts agreed there was a shared security concern over China.
Mr Liu Jinsong, director-general of the Asian Affairs Department at China’s Foreign Ministry, also on April 12 made “solemn representations” and expressed “serious concerns and strong dissatisfaction over Japan’s negative moves” to Mr Yokochi Akira, chief minister of the Japanese embassy in China, on the trilateral summit and the US-Japan one on April 10.
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