Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Indonesia next week for talks with the Southeast Asian allies as the United States seeks to push back against China’s “coercive” actions in the disputed South China Sea.
Mr. Blinken will travel to Indonesia for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers summit after concluding his trip to the United Kingdom and Lithuania, where he will join President Joe Biden for NATO meetings, a top U.S. official said Friday.
Daniel Kritenbrink, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, said that Mr. Blinken will hold multilateral engagements with ASEAN allies and partners to discuss economic cooperation, the ongoing crisis in Burma, and Russia’s war in Ukraine….