Kamala Harris will be visiting Singapore and Vietnam starting this weekend.
The White House has gone on the diplomatic offensive in South-East Asia after years of passive US engagement, recently sending top diplomats to the region along with Covid vaccines that have accounted for about a fifth of the 111.7 million doses it donated globally.
"In many ways, the US is playing catch up in Asia as a result of its paying little attention to the region over the last 20 years,” said Carl Schuster, a former operations director at US Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center. She’s scheduled to hold a joint news conference with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday and participate in a roundtable focused on supply chain resilience. In Hanoi, she will launch the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regional office in South-East Asia.
"It is important for us to re-establish the connection,” Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s trade and industry minister, said in an interview on Tuesday, adding that digital trade was on the agenda. While the approach may help court a potential economic partner like Vietnam, experts caution any significant breakthroughs are still a ways off.
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