SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – In a December speech, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described Washington’s vision for Asia – or what U.S. officials have come to call the “free and open Indo-Pacific.”
“When we say that we want a free and open Indo-Pacific … we mean that on a state level, that individual countries will be able to choose their own path and their own partners,” Blinken said.
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