Originally Posted by
henra
Personally I'm wondering why South Korea and Japan are not part of that agreement. Both are significantly investing in their Military. Both are sharing Western values to quite some extent. Both have relevant potential for conflict with China.
Are the US concerned that this might be considered too much of an aggression by China?
This whole thing was pretty rushed and its why it turned into a cluster, betting there is some behind the scenes talks imagine with india, japan, singapore and korea to see if they are interested in either this or an expansion to quad