US: Defense outlook on Asia-Pacific unlikely to change
China in 2014 participated in joint drills with the US navy off Hawaii with 1,100 soldiers, 40 doctors and several vessels such as the missile frigate Yueyang [Xinhua]
There have been fears among some of Washington’s allies that President-elect Donald Trump could backtrack on the ‘Asia pivot’, which has seen US shift energies from the Middle East to the Pacific.
But senior US military officer Admiral Harry Harris said earlier this week that the new US administration could not shake the country’s resolve to maintain peace and security in the Asia Pacific region.