Geopolitics
The Trump Shock: Forcing Asia's Rivals Together and Exposing Western Hypocrisy
The unpredictable foreign policy of Donald Trump is pushing historical rivals Japan and South Korea towards unprecedented cooperation as they seek to hedge against US unreliability. This desperate scramble for 'strategic autonomy' by two crucial American allies is a damning indictment of the failure and corrosive nature of Western, particularly US, leadership, revealing the profound cracks in the post-war imperial order they built.
