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Table of Contents 5 Issues and Recommendations 7 “Indo-Pacific”: The Construction of a Region 11 The Indo-Pacific: Emergence, Objectives, Key Issues and Ideas on Regional Order 11 The “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” strategy of the United States 17 Japan’s “Free and Open Indo-Pacific”: From strategy to vision 21 Australia and the Indo-Pacific as a solid regional reference framework 23 India’s “Act East” policy and the Indo-Pacific 26 The “ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific” 28 Interim conclusions 31 China’s Response to the Indo-Pacific 31 The perception of the Indo-Pacific in China 34 Chinese initiatives in response to the Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific as a containment strategy Where Does Europe Stand with Regard to the Indo-Pacific? The Indo-Pacific concept of France 38 Initiatives by France and other European countries 40 Conclusions and Recommendations: How Should the EU and Member States Approach the “Indo-Pacific”? 43 Abbreviations Dr Felix Heiduk is a Senior Associate in the Asia Division at SWP. Dr Gudrun Wacker is a Senior Fellow in the Asia Division at SWP. Issues and Recommendations From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific: Significance, Implementation and Challenges In Asia, competing ideas of order for the region have emerged in recent years, with the potential to spark multiple conflicts. For almost 70 years, the system of order in the Asia-Pacific region, often referred to as “Pax Americana” and dominated by the United States, had not been called into question. This has changed in the second decade of the 21st century. In the con- text of China’s rise to become the world’s largest economy, which has also changed the regional bal- ance of power in political and military terms, Beijing developed its own ideas and concepts of regional order and subsequently launched its own initiatives. These moves are driven by Beijing’s increasing claim to shape or reshape the regional (and international) order in accord