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In the Indo-Pacific, tensions between China and the U.S., Australia, India and others are building momentum with China’s escalating actions in the wake of the COVID-19 catastrophe which has shaken Indo-Pacific geopolitics considerably. As a geopolitical partnership, the relevance of the Quad is now proven. The Indo-Pacific seems to have come of age. The rise of India and China, as well as the ensuing great-power competition and deepening economic links across the Asia-Pacific and the Indian Ocean regions are often seen as a reality. The geopolitical strategic endeavour about the perceived ‘rise of China’ is viewed by influential observers and practitioners, particularly in the USA, Australia, Japan and India as a churning in Indo-Pacific region. China’s growing influence in Asia, the ‘Indo-Pacific’ is not an innocent or neutral description, but is a manufactured super-region designed to hedge against a perceived Sino-centric regional order.
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