India’s Indo-Pacific Initiative and Its Impacts on India–Vietnam Relations
摘要
From the early twenty-first century, the world’s strategic focus has shifted from the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific, a concept that represents the “Confluence of the Two Seas”, which include the Pacific and the Indian Oceans (Abe 2007). For strategic thinkers like former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, these two seas are interlinked, connected, and hence form what it should be expanded from the old term “Asia-Pacific” to be the Indo-Pacific.