[Zhang Fei]

[Do you for one second believe that South Korea would willingly go over to China?
Before that ever happened, they would probably enter into a mutual assistance treaty with Japan and possibly with Taiwan, Indonesia, or even Australia and/or New Zealand, forming a new and meaningful “SEATO” organization.]

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Alliances are not an easy thing to form or sustain. US alliances have survived for almost 80 years because the US was always willing to be the lender of last resort, the power willing to assume the lion’s share of the burden. I don’t see any other country in the world that is willing to take on that responsibility. It’s a big ask, and an impossible one in the Orient.

[Reily]

That type of an alliance would require significant naval assets. No one other then the US has that.

[dfwgator]

China basically wants their own “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”

[SeekAndFind]

RE: US was always willing to be the lender of last resort, the power willing to assume the lion’s share of the burden.

Isn’t China already doing that?

However, if you can’t pay back your debts, there are conditions, like China taking over your ports ( see Sri Lanka ).