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“Both U.S. and China respect the ‘ASEAN centrality’ in regional affairs,” Yun Sun, who covers East Asia in the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, said in an email to IBT, adding U.S. engagement with ASEAN isn’t aimed at China. “I would not agree with the assessment that the U.S. is engaging ASEAN to turn it against China, but to work on a wide array of issues following certain principles that China does not always agree with.”

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