Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby visited Southeast Asian nations to promote the US's AI
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Why Southeast Asia isn’t buying the US’ offer of ‘flexible realism’
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Why Southeast Asia isn’t buying the US’ offer of ‘flexible realism’
In arguably his most important foreign trip, Elbridge Colby, US undersecretary for defence policy, visited key Southeast Asian capitals this month. In a speech in Manila, the Pentagon policy chief extolled America’s “flexible realism”, which he said serves “the practical, concret…