Context: The Indo-Paci?c is influenced by Cold War vintage and pan-regional architectures divorced from the underlying security dynamics. The QUAD (The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) must resist this temptation to precipitate design over purpose.
4 Lessons to draw from the long arc of Asia’s history and geopolitics:
Conclusion: Friendships and not alliances, as noted by the PM in Shangri-La Dialogue (2018), must be able to resist armed revisionism and nudging regional geopolitics to cooperation rather than conflict.