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PHNOM PENH - Asean has formally upgraded its ties with India and the United States to comprehensive strategic partnerships, a move the grouping hopes will boost trade and investment flows and collaboration with two of its largest partners. The upgrades on Saturday come a year after Asean set up its first two such partnerships with Australia and China, which Asean leaders meeting their counterparts in Cambodia’s capital this weekend also took stock of. At the core of these partnerships is mutual support for an open, transparent, inclusive and rules-based architecture with Asean at the centre of developments in the region....
