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Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia. All opinions are my own, not CFR's. A RT is not an endorsement. jkurlantzick@cfr.org

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The Iran War Turned Asia’s Fragile Energy Dependence Into an Emergency

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By Joshua Kurlantzick
| The Council on Foreign Relations
When mediators announced a memorandum of understanding on June 14 intended to bring the Iran war to a formal close within sixty days, Asian capitals breathed something close to relief. The Strait of Hormuz, which had been largely shut to shipping since late February, seems to be slowly reopening, and oil prices have retreated from their crisis peaks.
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Trump is pushing Asian allies into China’s arms

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By Joshua Kurlantzick
| Chinafactor.News
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered a message at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last month that any European defense minister would have recognized from a Trump-era NATO summit. “The era of the United States subsidizing the defense of wealthy nations is over,” he declared at Asia’s premier annual defense forum “We need partners, not protectorates. We seek alliances built on shared responsibility, not dependency.” Then he put a number on it.
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Trump’s Defense Demands Are Pushing Asian Allies Toward China

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By Joshua Kurlantzick
| The Council on Foreign Relations
The Trump administration now demands that Asian partners dramatically increase defense spending—the same pressure it has applied to NATO allies for years. This push is giving China an opening in Asia it has long sought. European countries operate within NATO’s integrated command structure, share a threat perception sharpened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and carry decades of institutional habits around burden-sharing with the United States. Asian partners have none of that.
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