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South Korean upheaval rattles US plan to counter China

Edward White, Christian Davies, Leo Lewis and Demetri Sevastopulo

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Joe Biden boasted that the US, Japan and South Korea had “made history” when the leaders of the three countries held their first-ever trilateral summit at Camp David last year.

The meeting could not have taken place without South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol, a staunch US supporter who steered rapprochement with Japan while taking a more hawkish stance than his leftwing predecessors towards China and North Korea.

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