Asean’s reluctant embrace of Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy does not surprise India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
This approach to the Asia-Pacific, minted by the Trump administration, sees China as a strategic competitor and associates its growing profile in the region with destabilising behaviour such as militarisation of disputed maritime territories in the South China Sea.
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