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Donald Trump's Japanese and South Korean Nuclear Threat to China: A tipping point in East Asia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Richard Tanter
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is often now cited by the remaining band of optimists in Washington as a safe pair of hands, limiting the influence of the foreign policy manias permeating the White House. Unfortunately for both the United States and the rest of the world, Tillerson's public comments during his mid-March visits to Japan, South Korea and China show the precise opposite by threatening China with U.S. encouragement of acquisition of nuclear weapons by Japan and South Korea. Faced with American risk-taking on this order, at a time of mounting tensions in the Asia-Pacific, Australia and other nations in the region require an independent foreign policy focussed on sanity about nuclear weapons.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 7 , April 2017 , e2
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