A ‘huge appetite’ for the U.S. to step up engagement in the Indo-Pacific

Indo-Pacific trading partners are eager to see the U.S. deepen economic ties with countries in the region, but whether the Biden administration’s emerging strategy for engagement will be as meaningful as the broad trade deals that bind many countries in the area -- and don’t include the U.S. -- is a burning question for 2022, analysts tell Inside U.S. Trade. Administration officials in charge of U.S. Indo-Pacific policy are “acutely aware of the need” for the U.S. to step...