Why Donald Trump has put Asia on the precipice of a nuclear arms race
- Written by Ian Langford, Executive Director, Security & Defence PLuS and Professor, UNSW Sydney
For the past 75 years, America’s nuclear umbrella has been the keystone that has kept East Asia’s great‑power rivalries from turning atomic.
President Donald Trump’s second‑term “strategic reset” now threatens to crack that arch.
By pressuring allies to shoulder more of the defence burden, hinting that US f...
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