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President Joe Biden should spend more time with Southeast Asian leaders during a summit in Washington next week if his administration is serious about elevating US ties with the region, where China holds significant sway, a senior Cambodian official said on Friday (May 6). No individual meetings were currently planned between the region’s leaders and Biden when the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meets with him for talks on May 12 and 13, said Kao Kim Hourn, a minister and close adviser to Cambodia’s long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen. Cambodia holds the rotating Asean chair and up to...
