South China Morning Post
AsiaPac · 5 hrs ago
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With the ‘Indo-Pacific’ label losing its lustre, China has an opportunity
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The article examines how the US administration's reduced emphasis on the 'Indo-Pacific' terminology following Trump's Beijing summit and subsequent visits by top officials to India and Singapore may signal a shift toward less confrontational US-China relations and create strategic opportunities for China in regional diplomacy.
With the ‘Indo-Pacific’ label losing its lustre, China has an opportunity
Beyond the diplomatic choreography of last month’s Xi-Trump summit, what are the structural implications of a less confrontational US-China relationship for the Asia-Pacific?
The subsequent visits by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India and US Secretary of Defence Peter Hegseth to Singapore in late May shed some light on the question. Both Rubio and Hegseth had accompanied Trump to Beijing.
Perhaps most telling was the switch in the usage of a geographic term by the US administration. In..
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