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Christopher Woody, Business Insider: Countries in Asia are looking for ways to counter China's growing power — with and without the US's help
China's more assertive posture in its near abroad has its neighbors more concerned about Beijing's ambitions, and President Donald Trump's seeming vacillation on US commitments to the region have many of those countries reassessing their own security and diplomatic relationships.
At present, the balance of power in Asia "really is one of contested US primacy," Hervé Lemahieu, a research fellow at Australian think tank the Lowy Institute, told Business Insider earlier this month.
"We now have two regional superpowers, and they both have their strengths, and they both have remarkable weaknesses," said Lemahieu, who is also director of the Lowy Institute's Asia Power Index project, which assesses countries in the region on a range of political, military, and economic factors.
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WNU Editor: The problem with forming any Asian coalition against China is that many of these Asian countries have deep grievances among themselves .... Japan and the Korean peninsula being just one example. My prediction .... some of these countries will eventually cooperate on a range of political, military, and economic factors .... but that moment is not now, and only a few of them will make the effort.
