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China Global Times, a newspaper under the purview of the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily, published an editorial today (23 Aug) after US Vice President Kamala Harris touched down in Singapore yesterday (22 Aug) for an official visit to the country. “The US has made Southeast Asia the focal area in its competition with China,” Global Times noted. “And Singapore and Vietnam have become the key targets that the US expects to cozy up to.” The editorial further observed that after US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin paid a visit to Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines last month, “in the...