{"id":6890,"date":"2020-02-10T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2020-02-09T08:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T22:33:05","slug":"four-reasons-why-the-indo-pacific-matters-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/four-reasons-why-the-indo-pacific-matters-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Four reasons why the Indo-Pacific matters in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If there is one place in the world that we need to keep our eyes on for a better understanding of the dynamics of international affairs in 2020, it is the Indo-Pacific region. Here are four reasons why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>. <strong>The Indo-Pacific is hard to define<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politically, the Indo-Pacific is still a contested construct in the making. Australia and the United States seem to share a similar geographic view on the Indo-Pacific, i.e. the original Asia-Pacific region plus India. However, Japanese and Indian geographic understandings are much broader, including two continents\u2014Asia and Africa\u2014 and across two oceans\u2014the Pacific and Indian Oceans. For the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the concrete boundary of the region does not matter as long as the association retains its centrality in the future regional architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> China is a key player in the Indo-Pacific region, no matter how the geographical boundary is defined. However, China is reluctant to register itself to the Indo-Pacific. So far, no Chinese official document has used the term Indo-Pacific. In practice, however, China\u2019s economic and strategic ambitions have straddled across the Pacific and the Indian Oceans, as we can see from the extensive scope of its Belt and Road Initiative. 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