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TAIPEI – US Vice President Kamala Harris’s planned visit to Southeast Asia next week, following Washington’s other diplomatic proposals, will help President Joe Biden compete with China for influence in a critical but wary region of 660 million people, Experts say. A White House spokesman said Harris would travel to the regional financial center Singapore and former US war foe Vietnam. Harris will talk with both governments about security, climate change, pandemics and “joint efforts to promote a rules-based international order,” said spokeswoman Simone Sanders. Harris will be the first US Vice President to visit Hanoi The White House confirmed...
