A region that determines its own future – with American backing

MANILA, Philippines — The shared interests between the United States and the nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are deeper today than at any point in our nations’ histories. For decades, American capital, companies, and expertise have powered the region’s extraordinary economic rise. As a result, the US now stands among Southeast Asia’s top sources of foreign direct investment and trade—and US commercial activity in the region supported some 625,000 American jobs. This prosperity has been underwritten by the order and stability guaranteed by American military power. The US has long recognized that a secure, sovereign Southeast […]...

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