Yoon Suk-yeol and Xi Jinping said this week that they want to work together as much as possible, but due to U.S.-China rivalry, there are fewer and fewer opportunities to do this.

The two leaders’ first meeting at the G-20 summit in Indonesia on Tuesday was cordial enough, but reading between the lines, it’s apparent that the two sides are at odds on a number of security and economic issues.

Yoon spent much of his two-legged trip to the ASEAN summit in Cambodia and the G-20 summit in Indonesia aligning South Korea more closely with the U.S. This was reflected