“Rules-based systems … apply to all countries regardless of their size,” says Georg Schmidt, the German ambassador to Thailand. JSIRAS
For most people, the term “Indo-Pacific” simply refers to the vast geographical area that spans the Pacific Ocean and the Indian subcontinent. But it has also come to represent a geopolitical concept, and a new way of looking at world power relationships.
For the administration of outgoing US President Donald Trump, Indo-Pacific has been the preferred term for the region since 2017. While former president Barack Obama famously declared a “pivot” to Asia a few years earlier, Mr Trump’s advisers believed it did not go far enough in asserting US interests in the face of the growing influence of China.
In broader terms, the Indo-Pacific is growing so important economically…
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