Dec 30,2020 Special Forum

America’s Indo-Pacific challenge

This article has been updated on February 4. Competing with China is the foremost external policy challenge for the new US administration of President Joe Biden. More precisely, the problem is how to manage China’s power and assertiveness in a state of what incoming National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell have […]

Rory Medcalf

ASEAN , COVID-19 , free and open Indo-Pacific , US-China rivalry

Jun 26,2015 Open Forum

Reimagining Asia: From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific

The map of Asia is being reimagined. The idea of the Asia-Pacific, which made good sense as a framework for regional order in the late twentieth century, is giving way to another construct: the Indo-Pacific. This changing use of geographic terms has real-world consequences for how states and leaders perceive the regional strategic order, the […]

Rory Medcalf

Asia-Pacific , Australia , Indo-Pacific , Middle Power Diplomacy