HONOLULU: US Secretary of State John Kerry urged China and other Asian countries to bolster democracy and human rights in a region at the top of America's agenda.

"The United States is an Asian-Pacific nation, and we take our enduring interests there very seriously," Kerry said at the East-West Center in Honolulu, on Wednesday.

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