Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will tackle a number of the U.S.’s most critical foreign policy issues across the Asia-Pacific region when he jets off to a series of meetings this week in Thailand, Australia and the Federated States of Micronesia.
A senior State Department official described the visit as an opportunity to assert the U.S.’s role as a Pacific power by engaging with regional partners in the administration’s effort “to advance the shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific.”
Mr. Pompeo will meet with officials from member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, in Bangkok.
