Blinken, Austin to shore up Asia alliances on first travel


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Blinken, Austin to shore up Asia alliances on first travel By AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Japan and South Korea together next week as President Joe Biden shores up alliances in the face of China on his administration’s first foreign travel. Austin will also travel to emerging US partner India and visit the US military’s Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii, days after Biden holds a four-way virtual summit Friday with the leaders of India, Japan and Australia. Blinken said on Twitter that his trip was part of efforts to “work to promote...