Why China doesn't like the Indo-Pacific and why it matters

Abstract

The government made a solid start with last November's foreign policy white paper. The challenge is to transform all that vision into a strategy and a realistic independent foreign policy - which does not mean swapping America's influence for China's. China seeks to downplay perceptions that it must come to terms with the interests and equal sovereignty of those many others. [...]it chooses to see the Indo-Pacific as code for that uncomfortable reality. Show more