" HONG KONG — Summit meetings are at best symbolic. But last week’s East Asian summit in Hanoi ranked very high in symbolism.
The meeting showed that the United States has recognized its need for diverse informal allies in the face of the rise of China, and that China has realized its promise of rising in peace is not taken at face value by its neighbors.
Thus, Russia, India, Japan, Australia and some of the Southeast Asian countries were there to deliver the message that all of them had a stake in not seeing that the concept of a Group of Two — a world divided between U.S. and Chinese spheres of influence — become reality."
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