The "Indo-Pacific", stretching from the eastern Indian Ocean to the Pacific, is how the Australian government likes to describe the international environment for its foreign policy.
In strategic terms, it encompasses major powers such as India, Indonesia, China, Japan and the United States – a multipolar region that is resistant to the emergence of a new and potentially unfavourable hegemon. There is an economic dimension, too, with a vision of more diversified trade.
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James Laurenceson is Director of the Australia–China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney.
