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Washington insists that growing military ties with Seoul and Tokyo has nothing to do with Beijing The US is not working to create a “NATO for the Pacific” as a way to target China, the White House has claimed, after President Joe Biden declared a “new era” of security cooperation with South Korea and Japan.

Washington has refrained from calling the change in government a ‘coup’, which would require it to cut military ties The US is set to evacuate two drone bases in Niger as a precaution under the new military government, Air Force Gen. James Hecker told reporters on Friday in Washington.