In recent years, the term “Indo-Pacific” has become a buzzword in diplomatic, military, and strategic circles from Washington to Canberra, New Delhi to Tokyo. Shinzo Abe’s strategic imagination “Confluence of the Two Sea”, outlined in his address to the Indian Parliament in August 2007, inspired the creation of a new region: The Indo-Pacific. Framed largely as a maritime theatre of competition, it invokes images of naval power, strategic chokepoints, supply chains, and rising superpower rivalries – especially with China at the centre of the equation.

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