US trade demands jeopardize Indonesia’s strategic balance

Recent reports that the United States has offered to lower tariffs on Indonesian goods — from a threatened 32% to 19% — only if Jakarta agrees to purchase US-made maritime surveillance drones and “readjust” its South China Sea policy mark a troubling escalation in economic diplomacy. According to a government document seen by The Straits
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