Asia Doesn’t Need to Choose Between U.S. and China, Panel Says
- Competition can create space for nations to play bigger role
- Asia Briefing Live panel comes amid talk of travel bubbles
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Asian powers are in a position to avoid choosing between the U.S. and China as they build deeper ties with each other, a panel of regional politicians and experts said, amid a battle for influence between the world’s two biggest economies.
“Asia is not either China centric or U.S. led right now, it’s between orders and looks like staying that way,” former Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said on Thursday during the Asia Society’s Asia Briefing Live 2020 forum, presented in partnership with Bloomberg. “If you look at what’s happened in the last 15 years, middle powers are doing much more together than they’ve ever done before.”