Jack Keane: ‘Lost Opportunity’ How Biden Didn’t Address Its Role to Secure Indo-Pacific Region from China’s Aggression

‘He’s making the claim that we’re returning to the world stage as a global leader’

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KEANE: “This was an opportunity for the President of the United States. He’s making the claim that we’re returning to the world stage as a global leader. And therefore, deal with the United States competence and resolve. Lay out the strategic framework on how we’re going to deal with adversarial nations who are destabilizing the world order, China, Russia, and Iran. And also, I think come straight out and deal with Afghanistan in terms of U.S. commitment and U.S. resolve going forward, and admit that there had been some mistakes made, but the fact that our allies are sitting there, think about our allies in Indo-Pacific region. I’ve been out there and talked to many of them, and what they — they all do business with China, they don’t have much choice as a trading partner, but they all look to the United States, Maria, for security. All of them out there, to include the lesser countries you don’t mention much like Vietnam and Singapore and Indonesia, but all the major ones do as well. And we didn’t even address that in terms of the strategic significance and what is the United States' plans to deal with China’s aggression, as well as Russia in Eastern Europe and creating their own sphere of influence and what Iran wants to do in the Middle East. That was huge lost opportunity."

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