The Asan Forum’s introductory Topics of the Month article on the present state of Northeast Asian strategic competition and regionalism by Sergey Radchenko shares much in common with this article. The authors summarized in Multilateralism in Northeast Asia I contend that: 1) there are developing geostrategic divides in Northeast Asia just as the Cold War divided the region; 2) the causes of the divides and which states are on which respective side differ from the Cold War; 3) China and regional states’ relations with China are at the core of the new divides; and 4) regional multilateralism is being stymied by these divides rather than serving as a cooperative bridge over them.¹

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