KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to visit Indonesia and Malaysia next week as the Biden administration ramps up engagement in South-east Asia, a bloc it sees as central to its efforts to counter China’s growing influence.
I Gede Ngurah Swajaya, Indonesia’s director general for American and European Affairs, told reporters today that Blinken will visit Jakarta on December 13-14, the third and most senior US official to visit the region in two months. Two South-east Asian diplomatic sources, who requested anonymity, said Blinken was also expected to visit Malaysia on December 14-15 in his maiden trip to the region.
During his Indonesia leg, Blinken is due to deliver a speech on health, investment, and infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific, Ngurah said. Blinken will also participate virtually in the Bali Democracy Forum on December 9. It was not immediately clear whether Blinken will be visiting other countries in the region. A US embassy spokesman in Jakarta declined to comment.with South-east Asian foreign ministers at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September, Blinken said Washington would soon release a new strategy for the wider Indo-Pacific region, that would build “on our shared vision for a free, open, interconnected, resilient and secure region.
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