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The US Indo-Pacific Strategy, whose main principles were formulated in the US National Security Strategy released in December 2017, is aimed at preserving a unipolar structure of the world in an era of global changes that undermine US claims to world dominance. The more the authority of the unipolar world's overlord is undermined, the more diverse and dangerous the overlord's attempts become to preserve its dominant role by drawing into its orbit the countries that previously took a neutral stance toward the unilateralists' activity. This paper analyzes South Korean policy regarding the Indo-Pacific Strategy and examines the policy's political and economic aspects. The authors proceed from the view that South Korea, which has remained within the American global influence system for many decades, cannot ignore practically any American initiative. At the same time, the authors express doubt about the possibility of the transformation of the Indo-Pacific bloc being created under the auspices of the US into a significant international structure capable of altering the vector of the ongoing global changes. Moreover, the Indo-Pacific Initiative of the
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