U.S. Army keen to expand Southeast Asia access amid China worries
Idrees Ali and David Brunnstrom
Wed, December 1, 2021, 12:43 PM·2 min read
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By Idrees Ali and David Brunnstrom
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army is keen to expand its access and basing arrangements in Southeast Asia as part of a strategy to deter China, the secretary of the army said on Wednesday.
Christine Wormuth told a Washington think tank such a posture shift was in the interests of both the United States and its allies and partners in the region, but there was a need to be "realistic about what is possible"
She said positioning U.S. military equipment in Asia had been heavily oriented towards Northeast Asia.
"There is very much a desire to be able to expand our access and basing arrangements more into Southeast Asia, because if we were able to do that, we would have a more dispersed posture that would give us much more flexibility," she told the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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