A new super-region is taking shape—mainly to counter Chinese aggression
was hardly uttered in international affairs. Now many countries have adopted so-called Indo-Pacific strategies, including America, Australia, Japan, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, the, Britain and even Mongolia. South Korea joined the pack in December. The single main Asian holdout is China, which scorns the phrase. That is key to understanding what the Indo-Pacific is all about.
Crucial to understanding the new Indo-Pacific map, it connects the economic powerhouse of East Asia to the newer dynamism of South Asia, including along the sea lanes by which most of the world’s trade and ship-bound energy pass.
That challenge has been sharpened by periodic concerns about the capacity or staying power of the United States, the pre-eminent power in the region since the second world war. It was Japan, America’s principal ally in Asia, that first divined the importance of engaging traditionally aloof India, a move that helped crystallise the Indo-Pacific concept.
Above all, there are glaring gaps on the Indo-Pacific’s eastern and western flanks. For all the hard power America and India bring to the region, they are largely absent from regional economic initiatives.Under President Donald Trump, America backed out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free-trade pact which Japan and Australia then helped to salvage as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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