The United States has begun a series of meetings with ministers from the Asia-Pacific in Los Angeles. The two-day event was the first face-to-face meeting between members of the new Indo- Pacific Economic Prosperity Framework (IPEF), an initiative launched in May by US President Joe Biden.
The IPEF brings together the United States, Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The alliance is in theory an “open platform” that could eventually include other countries but does not include Taiwan.
