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The military coordination between Russia and China directly undermines U.S. deterrence capabilities and threatens the entire Asia-Pacific security architecture. Joint missile-defense exercises and integrated early-warning systems are creating a powerful axis that could enable crisis coordination against U.S. interests, forcing allies like Japan and South Korea to question deterrence reliability.