- Hudson’s Aparna Pande and Satoru Nagao: Whose Indo-Pacific?
By Roland Rajah, the interpreter: “When set against potentially upwards of U.S.$1 trillion in financing for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – to which the new U.S. fund is a thinly veiled response – that certainly seems the case. Yet the outlines of an Indo-Pacific infrastructure strategy that looks potentially more promising can also be seen.”
(DefenseOne) Both countries can help each other in a rapidly changing Asia — if they can pick their way past several looming obstacles.
By Daniel Kliman & Brendan Thomas-Noone, The Strategist (ASPI): “On the defence collaboration front, a new agreement was signed to jointly develop, research and test new cyber capabilities. Hypersonics were singled out as an area where cooperation between the two countries should be strengthened, particularly on concept development, testing and ‘validation’ of high-speed flight technologies.”