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China’s top diplomat Wang Yi has used a three-country tour of Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar to present Beijing as a steady partner in a region unsettled by war, trade tensions and doubts about US reliability.
The five-day visit ended on Sunday as Southeast Asia grapples with fallout from the Iran war, which has driven up energy prices and threatened growth across import-dependent Asian economies.
The conflict has compounded uncertainty from Washington’s tariff policy, which Southeast Asian exporters have spent months trying to negotiate…