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China vs America: the struggle for south-east Asia

Can Biden’s America contain China?

20 February 2021

9:00 AM

20 February 2021

9:00 AM

Is Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden’s secretary of state, preparing to abandon Barack Obama’s powder-puff Asian foreign policies? It is now widely agreed that Obama, under whom Blinken served as deputy secretary of state, ceded to China uncontested control of the South China Sea. Obama’s so-called ‘pivot to Asia’ was all talk and no trousers.

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