The Shallow Origins of the Indo-Pacific
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So a friend who’s also an Asian security scholar just asked me about whether I was aware of primary source evidence that explained the US shift from talking about “Asia” to talking about “Indo-Pacific,” as well as the accompanying shift into a strategy of “great-power competition” with China.
I’m sharing my written response to them here, because it candi…