SINGAPORE - The United States under President Donald Trump sees Southeast Asia as the fulcrum of its 'free and open Indo-Pacific' strategy rather than a region excluded from it.
This is coming from its newly appointed point man for security initiatives in East Asia and the Pacific, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Alex Wong.
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