“There is a small possibility that China is trying to drive a wedge [between Canberra and Washington], but that is not how I would interpret it,” said Mason Richey, an American international relations expert at South Korea’s Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
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“Assurance mechanisms are only half the coin, the other half is having your ally convinced,” said Mason Richey, an international relations professor at Seoul’s Hankook University of Foreign Studies.
In Seoul, Lloyd Austin promises 'ironclad' U.S. security upgrade against rising threat from North
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