The Biden administration released its Indo-Pacific Strategy two years ago, calling on the US to “firmly anchor itself in the region” and to work together with partners to ensure a connected, prosperous, secure, and resilient region.
Aircraft of the Philippine Air Force and the US Indo-Pacific Command participate in the joint Philippines-US Maritime Cooperative Activity in the vicinity of Batanes and an area of the South China Sea that falls within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines on Nov 21, 2023. WASHINGTON/CALIFORNIA: The Indo Pacific is home to more than half of the world’s population and 60 per cent of the global economy, spanning the US Pacific Coast and the Indian Ocean - including much of Asia.
“One of the things that I regularly hear from colleagues across the bipartisan spread of US Congress as well as across the entire whole of government in the United States, is a deep recognition of and support of the need for the United States to remain fully engaged in the Indo-Pacific region,” said Ms Lawson.Commentary: US will only have itself to blame if China’s economic influence in Asia grows, which stands for Australia, the United Kingdom and the US.
It will provide an additional sea base for the massive Pacific Fleet – the largest grouping in the world – that covers nearly half the earth’s surface from the US West Coast to the Indian Ocean, Antarctica to the Arctic. Given that the cost of building a ship in the US is too expensive, shipbuilding has moved to South Korea, Japan, and then to China, said Professor Kazuto Suzuki from the Graduate School of Public Policy at University of Tokyo.
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