Asia-Pacific remains Washington’s “priority theater of operations,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said yesterday, noting “the United States can be secure only if Asia is.”
SINGAPORE – Asia-Pacific remains Washington’s “priority theater of operations,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said yesterday, noting “the United States can be secure only if Asia is.”
The Philippines has increased to nine the number of military bases open to US troops under the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement between the two countries. At least two of the bases are in the Philippines’ far north less than 450 kilometers from Taiwan. “There are a number of things that can happen at sea or in the air, we recognize that,” he said. “But our goal is to make sure that we don’t allow things to spiral out of control unnecessarily,” he added.
“The eastern expansion of NATO has led to the Ukraine crisis,” Cao said. “What implications do you think the strengthening of the US alliance system in the Asia-Pacific will have on this region’s security and stability?” “This new convergence is producing a stronger, more resilient and more capable network of partnerships and that is defining a new era of security in the Indo-Pacific,” Austin said.
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