Janet Yellen to deliver major speech detailing US economic strategy toward Indo-Pacific

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New York CNN — At a moment of elevated geopolitical danger, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans to deliver a major speech on Thursday mapping out the Biden administration’s economic gameplan toward the increasingly volatile Indo-Pacific region, CNN has learned. The speech will mark the first time the Biden administration has outlined its economic approach toward the region in such detail. The Yellen remarks come ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) finance ministers’ meeting later in November and a potential high-stakes summit between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco. A Treasury official tells CNN...