Asia-Pacific Nations Want US Engaged in Region, Froman Says

Asia-Pacific nations want the US engaged in the region both economically and militarily as a counterweight to an increasingly assertive China, according to the new head of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The world has seen a return to great power politics with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, economic and military competition between the world’s two largest economies, the Israel-Hamas war and global challenges posed by issues like pandemics and climate change, Mike Froman said Monday in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

A greater number of countries want to see the US active in the region given those challenge, ...