{
  "id": 461487,
  "title": "US ‘digging in’ to Asia but wants ‘partners not dependency’: Pentagon",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/us-digging-in-to-asia-but-wants-partners-not-dependency-pentagon",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-10T10:07:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3363543/us-digging-asia-wants-partners-not-dependency-pentagon"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}