Asian geopolitics is often reduced to great-power rivalry between the U.S. and China. This is especially the case in Southeast Asia, where regional leaders have repeatedly expressed their unwillingness to choose between the two.
What is often missed in this binary perspective, however, is the critical role of Japan, not only as a major economic player but also, now, a security provider.
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