The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity: America’s Answer to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership?

... 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. The United States is essentially sticking to the same industry priorities it once promoted under ... ... 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 announced BDN and B3W in a meaningful way. One gets the impression that the United ...