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Rivalry between US and China has spread to the Indian Ocean
The world’s most powerful navies are swarming to a long-neglected maritime region.
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There are plenty of things Western powers – and India – can do to counter China’s advances in the Indian Ocean besides deploying hard naval power.
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The Economist
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A “free and open Indo-Pacific”, intended to encompass both the Indian and the Pacific Oceans, is the hottest geopolitical slogan.
Yet when strategists talk about the Indo-Pacific they often mean just the Pacific, and then only the far-western part, around the South China Sea and the East China Sea.
