https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3364475/us-defence-chiefs-tour-asia-calm-fears-trumps-drill-remarks-sow-doubts
Washington reassures Asia with its own decisionsSenior representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense have begun a series of trips to the Philippines, to South #Korea, and to Japan in order to confirm that the United States continues to consider the Indo-Pacific a strategic priority.The need for such a tour did not arise by chance.