This article analyzes the emerging engagement and paradigm shift in the US grand strategy in geopolitically and strategically important Indo-Pacific and the need for a rule-based order with other like-minded nations, especially democracies, to counterbalance the rise of an increasingly aggressive China. Writes Indu Saxena, John Lash, Sanskruti Yagnik.
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