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Home / Asia / Japan and South Korea must put ‘Asia First’ over Ukraine support
Asia, Ukraine, Ukraine‑Russia

August 8, 2024

Japan and South Korea must put ‘Asia First’ over Ukraine support

By Jennifer Kavanagh

Despite their distance from Ukraine’s battlefields, Japan and South Korea have been two of the country’s most generous supporters since Russia invaded in February 2022. Echoing Washington’s narrative about connections between security threats in Europe and Asia, leaders in both nations are betting that their military and economic commitments to Ukraine in the near term will serve as a down payment on security in the western Pacific over the long term.

Read at Nikkei Asian Review

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Jennifer
Kavanagh

Senior Fellow & Director of Military Analysis

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