{"id":230594,"date":"2026-06-05T04:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230594"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:55:03","slug":"why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230594","title":{"rendered":"Why US-led security alliances in Asia are losing coherence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geopolitics, at its core, examines how geography shapes international politics, power distribution and security dynamics. One enduring idea is geographer Halford Mackinder\u2019s \u201cheartland\u201d theory, which situates Eurasia as the central arena of global power competition.<br \/>\nIn 1904, Mackinder argued that the vast land mass of Europe and Asia \u2013 what he called the \u201cworld island\u201d \u2013 contained a pivotal core&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3351015\/why-us-led-security-alliances-asia-are-losing-coherence?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geopolitics, at its core, examines how geography shapes international politics, power distribution and security dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230594-why-us-led-security-alliances-in-asia-are-losing-coherence-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}