The document titled A Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Advancing a Shared Vision (FOIP) provided a comprehensive overview of US involvement in Indo-Pacific and listed “(i) respect for severity and independence for all, (ii) peaceful resolution of disputes, (iii) free, fair and reciprocal trade and (iv) adherence to international laws” (US Department of State 2019, p. [...] It emphasises on strengthening military alliances with existing partners and expending the military cooperation with other like minded countries in the region both in bilateral as well as in multilateral framework to ensure maritime security and freedom of navigation for all. [...] Acknowledging changing strategic and military balance and increasing unconventional security threats as formidable challenge, four pillared French Indo-Pacific strategy advocates for maintaining “an indo-pacific that is open and inclusive, free of all forms of coercion and founded on multilateralism and the respect of international law” (Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (2021, p. [...] The normative framework emerging from strategic and economic initiatives of the major countries and regional organizations is idealistically driven by desire of the Indo-Pacific as open, rules-based, inclusive, ‘free of all forms of coercion’, etc. [...] In the absence of any pan-Indo-Pacific institution, a network of bilateral, trilateral and quadrilateral cooperation has been shaping the emerging economic and security architecture in the Indo-Pacific.
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