The Indo-Pacific in the World March 2024 US Infrastructure Interests in the Indo-Pacific By Sam Barr and Mark Kennedy Executive Summary In the dynamic landscape of great power competition, the Indo-Pacific region has emerged as a focal point, characterized by its strategic importance and diverse demographics. [...] US Infrastructure Interests in the Indo-Pacific March 2024 2 Context and Background US Infrastructure Interests in the Indo-Pacific Two trends in great power strategic competition have revealed themselves in the last decade— The US Indo-Pacific Strategy—released in slowly at first, but more rapidly over the last few 2022—is a notable attempt on the part of the years. [...] Maximizing the positive impact of As the importance of the Indo-Pacific has infrastructure to achieve sustainable growth become apparent, so has infrastructure become and development a key domain in strategic competition in the 2. [...] One of the key strengths of the BRI is quite simply that it gets things built: “partner The Tinian airfield is part of a broader doctrinal countries have largely found the most change on the part of US Air Force, ‘Agile Combat attractive elements of the BRI to be its Employment’ (ACE). [...] meant that one of the key elements of US strategy in the Pacific, the Compact of Free Association (COFA), development and military agreements between the United States, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the US Infrastructure Interests in the Indo-Pacific March 2024 7 .
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