The Latest Breaking News from Indo

Asean's international status is rising

It might sound pompous to keep stating the strategic importance of Southeast Asia over the past year due mainly to the three heavy-weight summits held in the neighbourhood. Historically speaking, it has always been this way since the colonial period when European powers gobbled up land, suppressed local people, and…

Bangkok Post · Dec 26, 2022

South Korea's Indo-Pacific policy

President Yoon Suk-yeol announced the Republic of Korea's Strategy for a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region (hereafter Indo-Pacific Strategy), and Korea-Asean Solidarity Initiative (KASI) at the Asean-Korea Summit held in November in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. His core message at the summit was simple: Korea aims to upgrade and elevate…

Bangkok Post · Dec 12, 2022

Indo-Pacific economic talks begin

Japan, the United States, Australia and other nations on Saturday opened their first in-person round of negotiations aimed at setting economic rules and standards in the Indo-Pacific amid China’s growing clout in the region.

Bangkok Post · Dec 10, 2022

Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse series uses 'racist ideologies' to rewrite Indo-Pacific history, experts say

Experts on Pacific history hit out at a popular new series on Netflix which they say is founded on "racist ideologies".

ABC News · Dec 6, 2022

Pentagon warns China on Asia-Pacific: US will keep war-fighting edge

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the U.S. is building a more lethal force posture in the Indo-Pacific as part of efforts to make sure China doesn’t dominate the region the way it intends to.

Tribune News Service · Dec 3, 2022

Marles, Wong to visit United States, Japan

The deputy prime minister and foreign affairs minister will head overseas to boost peace in the Indo-Pacific amid growing concerns over Chinese influence.

AAP · Dec 3, 2022

Australia's PM says he's not in group of Australian MPs to visit Taiwan

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday he would not be part of a group of federal politicians set to travel to Taiwan for a reported five-day visit aimed at conveying Australia's wish to maintain peace in the Indo-Pacific.

Reuters · Dec 3, 2022

Australian defence chief warns of rise in ‘grey-zone activities’ in Indo-Pacific region amid China tensions

Gen Angus Campbell declares Australia and Japan are bound together by ‘increasingly shared strategic challenges’

The Guardian - AU · Dec 1, 2022

Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy: The same old starry-eyed thinking about Asian trade

Canada’s new Indo-Pacific strategy, announced with much fanfare by Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, marks a welcome return of common sense in place of the illusions that have dominated Canada’s approach to Asia for the past quarter-century.

The Conversation · Nov 29, 2022

On US state visit, Macron to draw the line on American protectionism

President Emmanuel Macron begins his three-day state visit to the US on Wednesday bolstered by shared bilateral visions on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. But President Joe Biden’s latest Inflation Reduction Act has alarmed the EU, and the French leader will have to stake a…

France 24 · Nov 29, 2022