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US ‘digging in’ to Asia but wants ‘partners not dependency’: Pentagon

The United States is not disengaging from Asia and is instead “digging in” to maintain a favourable balance of power in the Indo-Pacific, but wants its partners to shoulder more responsibility for their defence, a senior Pentagon official said on Monday. Seeking to counter concerns about Washington’s reliability, Elbridge Colby, Undersecretary of Defence for Policy, reiterated the US interest in…

US ‘digging in’ to Asia but wants ‘partners not dependency’: Pentagon

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