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Biden’s ‘lattice fence’ to deter China takes shape. Will it last?
The Biden administration has retooled US military pacts in Asia into a formidable web of interlinked alliances.
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US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, accompanied by his Japanese counterpart Minoru Kihara (far left), reviewing the guard of honour in Tokyo, on July 28.
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Even US President Joe Biden’s most strident critics must concede that there is something admirable about the way his administration has effectively and quite swiftly – in just three-plus years – refashioned the way America’s decades-old military alliances in Asia work.
Sure, like past presidents, much of Mr Biden’s economic agenda for the region has been lacklustre at best – remember the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity?
