As Pence kicks off his Asia tour, other countries have their own ideas for the ‘Indo-Pacific’
2018-11-12 10:38:29 source：CNBC
November 12, 2018
The United States says it has clear ideas for the strategically important “Indo-Pacific” region. But so do a lot of other countries.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is expected to lay out details of Washington’s free and open Indo-Pacific vision during his Asia tour this week. He will be representing President Donald Trump at the U.S.-ASEAN Summit and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, visiting Australia, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Singapore.
“We seek an Indo-Pacific — from the United States to India, from Japan to Australia, and everywhere in between — where sovereignty is respected, where commerce flows unhindered and where independent nations are masters of their own destinies, ” Pence wrote in a Washington Post commentaryahead of his visit.
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