Tribuna Norteamericana / nº41, septiembre 2023 - Alicia García Herrero - Economista jefe para Asia

potentials, the Indo-Pacific region stands vital to the Its emergence as a political term could date all the way future prosperity for the US as well as the rest of the back to the 1920s, when the German geopolitician Karl world. [...] In the first section, we will analyze how the US policies have evolved in the well as the rest of the world Indo-Pacific region over the last decade. [...] We will the Revival of the Quad then analyze the implications of the US’ Indo-Pacific strategies for China in the third section and review the Trump’s Indo-Pacific Strategy is a continuity of consequences for Europe in the fourth. [...] 3 The Economic Interests in the Indo-Pacific Increasingly Important as the US Pushes for an Alternative Supply Figure 3: GDP per Capita (2022) D Chain espite endless debates over the region’s definition, the launch of the IPEF by the Biden’s administration in May 2022 has made clear the concept of Indo-Pacific from an American point of view. [...] Defined this way, the Indo-Pacific is apparently one of the most important regions worldwide, whose GDP is more than twice of that of China and the European However, the GDP per capita of the Indo-Pacific region, Union, the world’s second– and third-largest economy with the US excluded, was only around USD 6613 in respectively (Figure 1).