US Secretary of State Antony Blinken seeks stability in Indo-Pacific

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United States' Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called for stability in the Indo-Pacific region and urged the world to work together to end threatening behaviour by North Korea after its latest missile launch. In broad remarks made after a bilateral meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta, he also called for a "just and lasting peace to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine" and urged Myanmar's military to end hostilities and start dialogue. "We must uphold freedom of navigation in the South and East China seas and maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait," he...