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- Title
POLICY ON AUTO-PILOT.
- Authors
DALPINO, CATHARIN
- Abstract
The difficulties of the Trump administration in forging a coherent foreign policy were on display in US relations with Southeast Asia in the early months of 2018. The Department of Defense played an outsized role as both Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford made visits to the region. The customary menu of multilateral and bilateral exercises with Southeast Asian militaries, including the 37th round of the annual Cobra Gold exercises, reassured security partners of continued defense cooperation. However, piecemeal diplomatic activity by the US underscored perceptions that the Trump administration has downplayed the region's significance, exacerbated by heightened rhetoric about the still-undefined "free and open Indo-Pacific region." Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea and the Rohingya refugee crisis continued to be of mutual concern, but were overshadowed by the emerging dialogue on the Korean Peninsula and growing trade tensions between China and the US, leaving Southeast Asian governments in a reactive mode. US-SOUTHEAST ASIA RELATIONS This
- Subjects
SOUTHEAST Asia-United States relations; DUNFORD, Joseph F., Jr., 1955-; MATTIS, James N., 1950-
- Publication
Comparative Connections: A Triannual E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
1930-5370
- Publication type
Article