{"id":48830,"date":"2019-07-01T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=48830"},"modified":"2019-07-05T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T12:31:21","slug":"7-pm-geopolitics-of-indo-pacific-how-india-and-others-interpret-the-term-1st-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-geopolitics-of-indo-pacific-how-india-and-others-interpret-the-term-1st-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM | Geopolitics of Indo-Pacific: How India and others interpret the term | 1st July, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Read In-depth analysis of all the Editorials here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Context:\n<\/strong>The\nterm \u201cIndo-Pacific\u201d is repeatedly used by the countries, as seen in recently\nheld G20 summit as well as during the visit of US Secretary of State Michael\nPompoe to Delhi. However, different countries interpret it differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indo-Pacific\nregion: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\nterm \u2018Indo-Pacific\u2019 refers to the maritime space stretching from the littorals\nof East Africa and West Asia, across the Indian Ocean and western Pacific\nOcean, to the littorals of East Asia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background of the term in Geopolitics:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nterm was picked up by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinz\u014d Abe, in 2007 that\ntalked about the “Confluence of the Indian and Pacific Oceans” as\n“the dynamic coupling as seas of freedom and of prosperity” in the\n“broader Asia”. From about 2011 onwards, the term has been used\nfrequently by strategic analysts and high-level government\/military leadership\nin Australia, Japan and the US to denote said region. However, a formal\/\nofficial documented articulation of the term first appeared in Australia\u2019s Defence\nWhite Paper, 2013. The term’s profile was raised when it found mention in the\njoint statement issued by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and\nUnited States President Donald Trump after the former’s state visit\nto the White House in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia\u2019s\ninterest in Indo-Pacific: <\/strong>The 2013 Defence White Paper clearly\ndelineates the Indo-Pacific as an area of supreme importance to Australia.\nDeveloping a close strategic partnership with India is an important part of\nthis strategy. However, there is a fundamental disconnect between Australian\nand Indian perceptions of the Indo-Pacific: on balance, Australia prefers to\navoid being part of any formulation that could be seen as attempting to contain\nChina and prefers an inclusive framework; by contrast, mainstream thinking in\nIndia has opposed the inclusion of China and is anxious about the growing\nvisibility of China in the Indian Ocean Region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA\u2019s\ndefinition of Indo-Pacific:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last US National Security Strategy document, in 2017,\nthe Indo-Pacific is described as the region from the \u201cwest coast of India to\nthe west coast of the United States\u201d. Rising China has been a challenge\nto the US supremacy, therefore India is seen more like a regional balance keeper.\nAlso, with the use of Indo-Pacific term in its administration, Washington is softening the ground for a revival of\nthe so-called Quadrilateral strategic alliance consisting of the US, Japan,\nAustralia and India to counter China\u2019s rise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

India\nand Indo-Pacific:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is\nquite different from the broader Indian perspective. India looks at it as a\nwider region, which extends from West Asia to the East coast of Africa. This is\nprimarily because India\u2019s security interests falls within Indian Ocean and now\nwith changing global maritime focus, it also covers Western Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The focus on maritime issues is evident from the increase in maritime\nexchanges led by the Indian Navy with countries, such as, Vietnam, Singapore\nand Japan. India\u2019s approach to the region is exemplified by its evolving Look\nEast Policy to Act East Policy, beginning with economic engagement with\nSoutheast Asia and now expanding to strategic cooperation beyond Southeast\nAsia. The US\u2019 Rebalance to Asia no doubt highlights the importance of the\n\u201cIndo-Pacific\u201d concept and generates much speculation regarding the interaction\nbetween the US, its regional allies, India and China. It has been identified as\na realm of great power rivalry by many. However, for India the region\u2019s\nimportance is neither a new development nor is it dictated by a shift in the\nAmerican focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Way\nForward:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the\nsame lines, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore\nmentioned, \u201cThe Indo-Pacific is a\nnatural region. It is also home to a vast array of global opportunities and\nchallenges\u2026 The ten countries of South East Asia connect the two great oceans\nin both the geographical and civilisational sense. Inclusiveness, openness and\nASEAN centrality and unity, therefore, lie at the heart of the new\nIndo-Pacific. India does not see the Indo-Pacific Region as a strategy or as a\nclub of limited members. Nor as a grouping that seeks to dominate. And by no\nmeans do we consider it as directed against any country. A geographical\ndefinition, as such, cannot be. India\u2019s vision for the Indo-Pacific Region is,\ntherefore, a positive one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read In-depth analysis of all the Editorials here Context: The term \u201cIndo-Pacific\u201d is repeatedly used by the countries, as seen in recently held G20 summit as well as during the visit of US Secretary of State Michael Pompoe to Delhi. However, different countries interpret it differently. Indo-Pacific region: The term \u2018Indo-Pacific\u2019 refers to the maritime space… Continue reading 7 PM | Geopolitics of Indo-Pacific: How India and others interpret the term | 1st July, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-pm","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/brief-image-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704766181},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}