US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is kicking off a week-long trip to Asia AFP/SAUL LOEBHONOLULU: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday he was traveling to Asia to boost military cooperation with American allies and foster"credible deterrence" against China.
"It's also about enhancing capabilities," he added, recalling that while the United States was focused on the anti-jihadist struggle in the Middle East, China was modernizing its army at high speed. "Our goal is to make sure that we have the capabilities and the operational plans ... to be able to offer a credible deterrence to China or anybody else who would want to take on the US," he added.Lloyd will be joined in Tokyo and Seoul by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
This tour in Asia of the heads of diplomacy and defense of the United States follows an unprecedented summit of the"Quad", an informal alliance born in the 2000s to counterbalance a rising China.Blinken will join President Joe Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, in Anchorage on March 18 with their Chinese counterparts Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi.
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