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Why Southeast Asia isn’t buying the US’ offer of ‘flexible realism’

South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
by Richard Heydarian
Aug 28, 2026 · 3:00 AM
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Why Southeast Asia isn’t buying the US’ offer of ‘flexible realism’
In arguably his most important foreign trip, Elbridge Colby, US undersecretary for defence policy, visited key Southeast Asian capitals this month. In a speech in Manila, the Pentagon policy chief extolled America’s “flexible realism”, which he said serves “the practical, concrete interests…
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