US Diplomat Dangles Energy Diversification to Asia-Pacific Group

The Asia-Pacific region has huge potential to absorb more US exports, including of liquefied natural gas, a senior American diplomat said.

President Donald Trump sees Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group “as an important dimension to our trade agenda,” Casey Mace, US senior official to APEC, told Bloomberg TV Friday. Taken together, the 21 member economies of APEC represent an “enormous market” for American goods and services that last year was worth some $1.5 trillion, Mace said.

The diplomat touted, in particular, the potential for US supplies to help diversify energy sources for a region that’s long depended critically on Middle East ...