Asia’s new security landscape places a premium on seamless cooperation among US allies – a prospect that the sustained bickering between South Korea and Japan calls into question. It could even be said that their longstanding dispute makes America’s Asian alliance system worth less than the sum of its parts.
亚洲的新安全格局意味着美国盟友之间消除嫌隙裨益良多——而韩国和日本的持续争吵让这一前景难以实现。甚至可以说，它们的长期纷争导致美国的亚洲联盟体系整体步入部分之和。