Enter EU: The Challenges and Cooperation Potential of the Indo-Pacific Strategy
After the initial proposal of a joint strategy in April 2021, the EU formally released its Indo-Pacific strategy on 16
After the initial proposal of a joint strategy in April 2021, the EU formally released its Indo-Pacific strategy on 16
As the EU is asserting itself as an Indo-Pacific player by working with existing multilateral groupings, it maintains a degree of strategic ambiguity, especially regarding China. While this ambiguous stance may limit cooperation with the Quad on traditional security issues, the Quad and the EU hold the potential to jointly deliver on several, cross-domain transnational issues.