The Trump administration has said that China's strategic intentions and trajectory in the Indo-Pacific are destabilising and counterproductive, reiterating its pledge to maintain the region free and open.
Randall Schriver, Assistant Secretary of Defence, Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, during a Congressional hearing told lawmakers that the US will continue to pursue a
Schriver said America's vision for the Indo-Pacific region excludes none as it seeks to partner with all nations that respect national sovereignty, fair and reciprocal trade
"Although we accept that states will make some decisions that are not in our interests, we recognise that for the Indo-Pacific region to flourish, each nation in the region
must be free to determine its own course within a system of values that ensures opportunity for even the smallest countries to thrive, free from the dictates of the strong," he
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