Global Courant
For 35 minutes on Monday, when Mr Blinken became the highest-ranking US diplomat to meet Mr Xi since 2018, a collective sigh of relief probably breathed through that tactical array of US allies in the Pacific – from Japan and South Korea to the north, through the Philippines, all the way to Australia in the south. Southeast Asian economies that sit on crucial global supply routes and small island nations in the Pacific, drawn between Chinese and American rapprochements, would have been equally reassured.
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