Indo-Рacific great power strategies: the PRC as a source of geopolitical anxiety
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https://doi.org/10.24866/1813-3274/2025-1/66-79Keywords:
Indo-Pacific, strategy, rivalry, USA, India, Australia, China, QUAD, FOIP, BRIAbstract
A vision, a cartographic projection, a concept, even a strategy: over the rerecent decade, the Indo-Pacific has become part of the vocabulary of international relations. As an expression of a changing world, it has supplanted ‘Asia-Pacific’. By 2024, over a dozen of more or less elaborate Indo-Pacific strategies had been developed. More than a dozen countries have published their position on the Indo-Pacific. This number of ‘strategies’, ‘visions’ and ‘viewpoints’ supporting the use of the concept testifies not only to its importance, but also to the competitive relationship established between the powers, each of which wants to be part of the club. The proliferation of texts is also due to the need to position oneself and establish oneself in a field that continues to drive global growth. Behind the texts adopted, which are not entirely similar in scope and scale, there are common challenges.
The first of these, which can be considered the real cement of these Indo-Pacific strategies, is the unease or distrust of China, expressed with varying degrees of clarity depending on the specific country. This article offers an analysis of the Indo-Pacific strategies of the founding great powers of the Indo-Pacific concept through the lens of their anxiety in the face of China's offensive posture.
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