The US has sought to deepen ties with Indo-Pacific countries while simultaneously trying to stabilise its relationship with China. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - It is the United States’ responsibility to deter “unilateral changes” to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said at Asia’s top security summit on Saturday , as he signalled Washington’s commitment to support its Asian allies against “bullying” from China.Mr Austin said the US did not “seek conflict or confrontation”, but that it would not “flinch in the face of bullying or coercion”.
China believes that there are groups in Washington and Taipei pushing Taiwan towards a declaration of independence, while the US has countered that it is merely arming the island to deter China from invading it. The intensifying Sino-US rivalry has permeated politics, trade and other areas of global governance, shaping geopolitical dynamics and pressuring smaller nations in their orbit to take sides.But the pair “did not have a substantive exchange”, the Pentagon said.on the sidelines of the summit, urging Washington to first drop its sanctions against Chinese officials.
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