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investment standards set by the United States and that reduce the region's economic reliance on China.

  • (U) Assign strategic purpose to the combined financial resources and economic power of the United States; promote an integrated economic development model in the Indo-Pacific that provides a credible alternative to One Belt One Road; create a task force on how best to use public-private partnerships.
  • (S//NF) Promote the U.S., ally, and partner-led development of energy, telecommunications, and logistics standards and infrastructure.
  • (S//NF) Expand the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's work in promoting regional economic integration and support the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community through trade facilitation, customs modernization, and standards harmonization.
  • (S//NF) Incentivize the U.S. private sector to reignite an expeditionary spirit sot that it expands two-way trade and investment in the Indo-Pacific.

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