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Seoul has long trodden a fine line between top trading partner China and the United States, the South's chief defence guarantor.

Seoul has long trodden a fine line between top trading partner China and defence guarantor the United States.

He said Lebanon would continue pressing the United Nations and ceasefire guarantors "to ensure a halt to the repeated violations and the implementation of a complete Israeli withdrawal from our lands".

The goal of this alliance, as openly stated by its leaders in Tehran, was to replace the U.S. as the security guarantor of the region, while also seeking the destruction of Israel.

The tensions have left President Emmanuel Macron struggling to thread the needle in his constitutional role as guarantor of judicial authority.