Opinion: From Taiwan to Palau, the true threat of US pivot to Asia emerges

Beijing’s strategic dilemma is that to counter US containment, it needs a free hand in the South and East China seas and into the rest of the Pacific. But the more it pushes, the more it antagonises neighbouring countries.

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