KUALA LUMPUR/JAKARTA (Reuters): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to visit Indonesia and Malaysia next week as the Biden administration ramps up engagement in South-East Asia, a bloc it sees as central to its efforts to counter China's growing influence.
I Gede Ngurah Swajaya, Indonesia's director general for American and European Affairs, told reporters on Monday that Blinken will visit Jakarta on Dec 13-14, the third and most senior US official to visit the region in two months.
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