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Michael Hirsh

Biden Must Change the Narrative of Neglect for Southeast Asia

Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc addresses counterparts at the ASEAN-U.S. summit, held via videoconference due to the coronavirus pandemic, from Hanoi on Nov. 14, 2020. Nhac Nguyen/AFP via Getty Images

“Diplomacy should be the first instrument of American power,” wrote then-U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden in a Foreign Affairs essay in early 2020 on restoring foreign policy after Trump.

Southeast Asians are waiting, increasingly impatiently, for Biden to demonstrate that.

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