The United States cannot attract Southeast Asian countries to its anti-China policy, writes the Global Times newspaper on February 26.
As the publication points out, Southeast Asia is very close to China and is a key region in the United States Indo-Pacific Strategy.
However, the United States faces the greatest difficulties in isolating China in the region, the newspaper writes.
In 2000, US trade with ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) was more than three times China’s trade with ASEAN, but in 2020, China’s trade was almost twice that of the United States.
Today, China, GT notes, has become the largest trading partner of almost all ASEAN countries. ASEAN’s largest economies, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, are reluctant to take sides in the US-China conflict.
All of them hope to use the contradictions between China and the United States to maximize their own interests, the publication states.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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