US, Indonesia Countering Red China’s Expansion Launch Security Dialogue on South China Sea

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department in Washington, on Aug. 2, 2021. Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Aug. 3 that the Biden administration is launching “strategic dialogue” with Indonesia. The two countries have pledged to cooperate on issues such as safeguarding freedom of navigation in the South China Sea to contain communist China’s expansion in the region.

Indonesia is the largest country and biggest economy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Washington believes that ASEAN plays a key role in curbing the Chinese communist regime’s expansion in Asia.