BEIJING — U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke on Sept. 1 tried to ease China’s fears that Washington wants to hem it in by emphasizing any U.S. military presence in Asia was not targeted at a single country.
“We strongly believe, and I believe most in the region would agree, that our security presence here is beneficial to the countries of the region and necessary for the continued vitality of the Asia-Pacific,” Locke said.
“Our security presence is not aimed at any one country,” he said in a speech at Peking University, noting that the United States was also boosting its diplomatic and economic engagement in the region.
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