South Korea and Japan’s deepening defence co-operation is triggering alarm in China, as the US seeks to rally its east Asian allies amid increasing regional tensions.
Tokyo and Seoul sealed an agreement to share real-time information on North Korean missile launches along with the US at the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore this month.
The announcement, which followed a diplomatic breakthrough between Seoul and Tokyo this year, risks stoking anger in Beijing, which has discouraged South Korea from closer economic and defence ties with the US and Japan — a longstanding effort that now appears to be floundering.
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