Comment: Renewed regional tension


US President Biden arriving to speak with Australian prime minister Morrison and British prime minister Johnson in the East Room of the White House in Washington DC recently. — Bloomberg

WHEN then-United States president Barack Obama left office in 2017, we knew that his “pivot to Asia” move was nothing but talk.

His administration remained stuck with problems in the Middle East while his successor Donald Trump proved to be too incompetent to get anything done.

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