{"id":137544,"date":"2019-07-15T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=137544"},"modified":"2019-07-13T11:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:41:54","slug":"debunking-the-indo-pacific-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/07\/debunking-the-indo-pacific-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking the Indo-Pacific Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 Jul 2019 – <\/em>The Trump administration is obsessively spinning the concept of a \u201cfree and open Indo-Pacific\u201d. Apart from a small coterie of scholars, very few people around the world, especially across the Global South, know what that means since the then incipient strategy was first unveiled at the 2017 APEC forum in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Now everything one needs to know \u2013 and especially not know \u2013 about the Indo-Pacific is contained in a detailed Pentagon report (PDF).<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian independent geopolitical analyst. He is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for Asia Times Online. He has been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9\/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of \u201cGlobalistan<\/a>\u201d (2007), \u201cRed Zone Blues<\/a>\u201d (2007), \u201cObama does Globalistan<\/a>\u201d (2009) and \u201cEmpire of Chaos<\/a>\u201d (2014), all published by Nimble Books. His latest book is \u201c2030<\/a>\u201c, also by Nimble Books, out in December 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n

TO READ THE ARTICLE Go to Original \u2013 strategic-culture.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

9 Jul 2019 – The Trump administration is obsessively spinning the concept of a \u201cfree and open Indo-Pacific\u201d. Apart from a small coterie of scholars, very few people around the world, especially across the Global South, know what that means. Now everything one needs to know \u2013 and especially not know \u2013 about the Indo-Pacific is contained in a detailed Pentagon report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":136328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[239,232,244,120,331,354,1268,267,1126,1050,759,629,504,742,91,109,287,278,249,639,292,70,126,118,172,75],"class_list":["post-137544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","tag-brics","tag-capitalism","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-development","tag-economics","tag-european-union","tag-geopolitics","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-india","tag-international-law","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-nato","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-russia","tag-trump","tag-uk","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-war","tag-west","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}