... disproportionately be shaped by the global competition between the superpowers of the U.S. and China.
Ekaterina Arapova:
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity: America’s Answer to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership?
The unprecedented ... ... competition between the American and Chinese superpowers is the first step towards that goal.
The second entails becoming aware of Indian thinker Sanjaya Baru’s bi-multipolarity concept that the author of the present piece elaborated more about in his RIAC ...
... access to the raw materials and natural resources of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, etc.
Conclusion
Andrey Kortunov:
Why India Will Never Be Part of U.S. Alliances
Announced in May, the initiative is a logical institutional build-on of Washington’s new Indo-Pacific Strategy adopted in February 2022. Its purpose is to contain China and prevent the RCEP from growing in strength.... ... to entry and exclusivity and are thus inaccessible to China.
Barack Obama’s logic of the rigid institutionalization of the Asia-Pacific is embodied in the flexible format of the U.S. orientation towards the Indo-Pacific, which complements the earlier ...
The factors driving the Indo-Pacific strategy forward are clearly stronger than the constraints
After the U.S. has put forward its Asia-Pacific strategy in 2017, many commentators believed that the concept was artificial and lacking in political foundation,... ... are clearly stronger than the constraints.
Prospects for the Squad-based Indo-Pacific
The political will of the U.S., Japan, India and Australia to foster the Indo-Pacific cooperation is increasing rather than weakening, which is the most important basis ...
... difficult it will be to involve India in the Community of Common Destiny.
Russia’s interests
Strictly speaking, the Indo-Pacific does not directly involve Russia in any way. The current US strategy does not view Moscow as a serious player in either the Indian Ocean or the Asia-Pacific region. Geographically, the Indo-Pacific does not extend north of Hokkaido and the Korean Peninsula. Perhaps that is reason Washington effectively ignores ongoing attempts of Japanese-Russian rapprochement under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as well as political pushback from South ...