In recent years,a major practice of regionalism in Japan’s diplomacy has undoubtedly been its proposal and implementation of the“Indo-Pacific”concept.The term“Indo-Pacific”is not only a spatial concept that combines the respective natural and geographical regions of the two oceans,but it is also a new cross-domain discourse structure and to a geat extent a geopolitical construct.1 In the new environment characterized by the changing international order,Japan has been deeply concerned about China’s rise in contrast to the United States’relative decline,worrying that China would dominate the construction of future Asia-Pacific or Indo-Pacific order through its Belt and Road Initiative.As the traditional geopolitical mindset still prevails,Japan has developed a regional strategy for the Indo-Pacific.
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