China's trade & infrastructure sweep Southeast Asia, America can't compete with China | Geopolitical Spectator
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China's trade & infrastructure sweep Southeast Asia, America can't compete with China | Geopolitical Spectator
As the United States' strategic rivalry with China intensifies, one part of the world, Southeast Asia — where the U.S. has ceded much influence over the past two decades to China — is witnessing renewed U.S. interest under President Biden. Biden administration officials have made repeated trips to the region in the past year and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, is looking with both hope and trepidation as Washington deepens competition with China over technology, investment, infrastructure, and security. In fact, Secretary of State Antony Blinken closed out 2021 with his first trip to the region as Washington's top diplomat, visiting Indonesia and Malaysia, where he asserted that "much of the planet's future will be written in the Indo-Pacific." If you combine the populations of Southeast Asian economies — estimated at 650 million — they make up the world's third-largest labor force, behind only China and India. The region's middle class is expected to double by 2030. full article at: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1073764647/us-china-southeast-asia-trade-defense
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