Not so long ago, Washington looked with pride on its “latticework” in East Asia; a criss-crossing series of alliances and partnerships stitched together to try to preserve its primacy.
Its centrepiece was President Joe Biden’s success last year in untying one of Asia’s hardest knots – a guarded rapprochement between Japan and South Korea.
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James Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s International Editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.
