U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday put his "America First" mantra and bilateral trade deals with Asian nations on the basis of "fairness and reciprocity" at the core of his efforts to advance what he describes as "a free and open Indo-Pacific" region.Instead of asserting U.S. leadership in the region in concrete terms in a closely watched speech in Danang, Vietnam, Trump indirectly criticized regional free trade initiatives such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a China-excluding pact from which the United States withdrew in January."I will make bilateral trade agreements with any Indo-P…READ FULL ARTICLE
