The meeting between President Trump and the US military commanders indicated that the US would be more inward-looking. The proposed Trump-Xi meeting, scheduled around the APEC Summit in Korea later this month, aims for a new détente. Where does that leave the rest of the Indo-Pacific? In June 2025, Chinese aircraft carriers entered deep into … Continue reading War Before War! How China’s “Below The Belt” Ploy Is Redrawing East Asia’s Maritime Order, Reshaping Indo-Pacific: OPED