"Our prosperity & geopolitical influence in coming decades will depend on how we work together with countries of Indo-Pacific region".
"Aim must also be to avoid unilateral dependencies by diversifying partnerships".
Germany's new Indo-Pacific guidelines are major step forward.
New Indo-Pacific policy guidelines are also a major step forward in German China debate because it's now clear that any successful approach for dealing with party state & its regional and global role needs to focus on Indo-Pacific & partnerships with key countries in the region.
New guidelines will hopefully also provide momentum for deepening exchange & cooperation on policy front (among policy-makers, think tanks, academics, NGOs, businesses) with key countries in region such as India, Japan, Australia which have vibrant debates far ahead of ours.
Hopefully this will also prompt many in Germany (and beyond) to read and discuss @Rory_Medcalf's excellent book.
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@JeremyCliffe did a review earlier this year.
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We are happy that study by the great @GarimaMo (now with @gmfus) who has done more than anyone in Berlin to get Indo-Pacific on radar & into minds of policymakers helped to inform discussion on Germany's new Indo-Pacific guidelines.
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