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Trump’s Meddling in Asia

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May 08, 2017
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United States President Donald Trump’s focus on North Korea is playing into Chinese hands and, by default, further weakening the US position in a Southeast Asia increasingly subject to Chinese carrots and sticks.

Trump’s “war” on the North makes little sense either at a time when the South seems about to elect as president Moon Jae-in from the Democratic…

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