The U.S. House speaker and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida both denounced China’s ongoing military drills near Taiwan, underscoring Japan’s security concerns.
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December 12, 2020
U.S. Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. (left), then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets with U.S. Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin (right), then commander, U.S. Central Command, at CENTCOM headquarters March 11, 2016.
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Is U.S. President-elect Biden bad for Asia? Would he change the U.S. course on China set by the Trump administration and, instead, seek to reach out to Beijing in order to work with it on shared challenges? Will the “Indo-Pacific” still be a thing from January 20 onwards? While these questions periodically surfaced among the commentariat in the run-up to the November 3 presidential elections, they have once again come to the fore, most notably with Biden’s decision to nominate former CENTCOM Commander General Lloyd Austin for the position of the secretary of defense.