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Brookings Institution Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies Lynn Kuok discusses how China outperformed the United States in trade, multilateral engagement and infrastructure development since 2009 as ASEAN's leading trading partner, while US credibility eroded due to withdrawal from the trans-pacific partnership and uncertainty over the Indo-Pacific economic framework, with the United States struggling to compete in infrastructure development efforts such as Blue Dot Network, Build Back Better World initiative and Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment at a US-China Economic and Security Review Commission briefing on United States and Chinese relations with Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.