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This paper traces changes in US foreign policy approaches to the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR). Interestingly, even as US leaders changed their ways of restructuring the regional subsystem by establishing and maintaining ally relations with certain countries in the region, their objective remained unaltered - namely, security provision in the area with US leadership intact. At the moment, attainment of this goal is hindered by growing Chinese influence in the IPR. The authors focus on discovering criteria that would help assess the current situation in the region and the efficiency of the existing cooperation between the United States and IPR countries within organizations and agreements. The research was based on analyzing the modus operandi of regional players that are parties to agreements with the US and position themselves as US allies. The research criteria were as follows: participation in military exercises, deployment of military bases, defense agreements signed, data exchange in the area of military technologies, presence of nuclear weapons, lack of maritime territorial claims, and participation in navigation operations.
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