Blinken's trip aims to boost U.S. ties with Southeast Asia as China tensions rise, says expert
"Let me be clear: the goal of defending the rules-based order is not to keep any country down. Rather, it's to protect the right of all countries to choose their own path, free from coercion and intimidation, " said Blinken, who will also visit Malaysia and Thailand this week.
"It's not about a contest between a U.S.-centric region or a China-centric region – the Indo-Pacific is its own region," he added. The Secretary of State also criticized China's aggression in the South China Sea, noting it threatened more than $3 trillion in annual trade and is a cause of growing concern."That's why there is so much concern – from Northeast Asia to Southeast Asia and from the Mekong River to the Pacific Islands – about Beijing's aggressive actions," he added.
Ashley Townshend, director of foreign policy and defense at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, underlined that Blinken's visit is critical because the Biden administration is in the early stages of rolling out a comprehensive Indo-Pacific economic framework. "Which really tries to go to one of the core demands of Southeast Asian countries from the United States, which is to see the United States invest and invest more substantially in the region," he said as well as "bolstering a more resilient region ... that is more able to stand up to Chinese coercion."
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