WASHINGTON, D.C.: US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday (Monday in Manila) began a one-week trip to Asia, hoping to strengthen defense cooperation with Indonesia and Vietnam as regional Chinese military power looms ever larger.
“We share the Pacific—it’s an ocean named for peace—we would like to see it remain peaceful, so all the nations that use it and live here are prosperous,” Mattis told reporters accompanying him on a military plane headed to the region.
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