'US used Asean meet to talk up new framework'

By Xinhua News Agency

May 18, 2022 12:13 am

NEW YORK CITY: The administration of United States President Joe Biden used last week's US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Special Summit to talk up his forthcoming Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which tries to make up for Washington's new unwillingness to negotiate the kind of market-opening trade deals Asian leaders like, according to a Foreign Policy report.

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