How the US ‘pivot to Asia’ can help Thailand keep the balance

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How the US ‘pivot to Asia’ can help Thailand keep the balance

Suthichai Yoon
The Nation 

 

BANGKOK: -- Not surprisingly, there was no mention of the “pivot to Asia” or “rebalancing” of US foreign policy during the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump last week.

 

It would be a major surprise if the issue came up in their two remaining debates. 

As they say, all foreign policy issues are in the end domestic in nature anyway.

 

In October, 2011, I interviewed the man credited with framing the US pivot to Asia, Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under secretary of state Hillary Clinton. The focus of our discussion was Myanmar and signs it was embarking on a new path.

 

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