Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continued to emphasize the United States’ “pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region” in remarks at the Bali Convention Center in Indonesia on Friday. 

She argued that maximizing “broad, inclusive, sustainable growth” is contingent upon open, free and fair competition. 

“That means taking on rules that prevent foreign investors from competing with local businesses to produce better goods and services,” Clinton said, according to the State Department. “It means lowering trade barriers that stop the flow of ideas, information, products, and capital across borders. It means letting outside investors compete under the same rules as the inside players. And it makes it absolutely imperative that everyone knows what the rules are.”

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