It is here that the geopolitical frame of the Indo-Pacific is being recreated. It is no longer something belonging to the 20th Century where we had the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, as two separate entities, and where the Straits of Malacca were a kind of block or barrier. The Str...
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