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To be truly secure, the Indo-Pacific must be inclusive
The Indo-Pacific cannot be defined by a narrow insistence that all partner nations share identical conceptions of liberal democracy and national security.
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The framework has caught on at a time when the transgressions and triumphalism of a rising China often dominate global discourse.
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Rory Medcalf
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As recently as a decade ago, the idea of a single super-region encompassing the Indian and Pacific oceans seemed unfamiliar and academic. No longer: Today, the Indo-Pacific
What began as a practical reimagining of the world map – one that recognises the region as this century’s centre of gravity in economics, population and contestation – is crystallising into a set of common principles. Specifically, most countries now accept that a stable, prosperous and peaceful Indo-Pacific must also be free and open.
