Let me summarize Jeffrey Reeves’s post at Responsible Statecraft like this. India, Japan, Southeast Asian countries, and the Philippines which President Biden has described as “our allies and partners” have been pressing for greater autonomy in defense.
How dare they?
That’s in direct contradiction to the U. S. hegemony that has been central to our foreign policy for decades.
My own view is that we have lots of clients, a few adversaries, a huge number of “antagonistic non-belligerent” countries and very few or no “partners or allies”.
