Northeast Asia is undergoing a reorganization driven by three trilateral frameworks involving the US, China, and Russia. These structures address interconnected issues like Taiwan, Korea, energy routes, and nuclear risks, influencing the region's strategic landscape.

When Washington, Beijing and Moscow begin to treat one another as bargaining partners again, northeast Asia feels the pressure. Taiwan, Korea, sanctions, energy routes, nuclear risks and missile defence are no longer separate theatres. They increasingly belong to one strategic conversation between the US, China and Russia. Northeast Asia itself is already being reorganised through three trilateral structures with different purposes, degrees of institutionalisation and strategic effects. Thus the...