Year : 2020, Volume : 24, Issue : 1
First page : ( 62) Last page : ( 69)
Print ISSN : 0971-8052. Online ISSN : 0974-0937. Published online : 2020  05.

International cooperation in the indo-pacific region

Sibal Kanwal

Abstract

This article describes the increasingly tangible concept of an Indo-Pacific region, floated by the US for connecting the Indian and Pacific oceans through cooperation between various countries. The origins of the concept however, make many countries cautious about endorsing it. Some see it as related to the sharpening of Japan-China territorial differences in the East China Sea. China and Russia regard the initiative as part of a strategy to keep them under control and challenge their presence in both oceans. ASEAN is wary ofit developing into a new security forum, reducing the organisation’s centrality in developing a regional security architecture. Nonetheless, India as the foremost power in the Indian Ocean has gradually forged a naval partnership with the US and Japan to protect maritime security and freedom of navigation without intending for it to become a military alliance against any nation.

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