But this analysis ignores the main reasons why the United States has struggled to compete with China in Southeast Asia, despite strategic initiatives such as the Obama administration axis to Asia and the free and open Pacific strategy that continued through the departments.
The basic pillar of these strategies was to stimulate bilateral security alliances, interact with regional countries and their multilateral institutions to counter global challenges such as climate change and epidemic, or promote liberal principles such as freedom of movement, human rights and democracy.
As a result, the American participation in the region was more connected to the long -term security allies such as the Philippines or economically developed countries such as Singapore, but it is limited in relation to the least correct such as Cambodia.
Although the United States is still the largest investor in Southeast Asia, the largest part of this investment flowed to Singapore. Although American technology giants such as Microsoft, Google and Oracle are creating cloud data and services centers in Malaysia and Thailand, American investment in basic infrastructure such as transportation and communications and wireless communications was limited.
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