A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS ON THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF INDO-PACIFIC REGION IN GLOBAL POLITICS

The Indo-pacific region is enfolding the vast areas and islands which surroundings either the Indian Ocean or the Pacific Ocean. In the geopolitical theme the term earliest used by the German geopolitician in 1920s in his numerous work on geopolitics. The region significance reinvigorate in the contemporary world politics. Australia, Japan and India popularized the term they conducted trilateral dialogues and sometimes discuss the region under the US umbrella. In the contemporary world the Indo-pacific region lay down implications on the global politics due to its huge importance. This research paper aim to examine the Indo-pacific region and to unfolding its different sides which are connected with the global politics. The paper thoroughly investigate currents ongoing geopolitical and geo-economics significance of the region. Major and Middle powers have been trying to acquire their respective national interest from the region. The United States trying to persist her hegemony in the region reactive the quadrilateral security dialogue which is the group of foursome Australia, India, Japan and US and leading by US to contain the broader engagements of China in the Indo-Pacific region and concentrating to mitigate the China geopolitical and geo-economics influences through different strategy. This paper assess the China Belt and Road Initiatives which mainly focusing on the geo-economics connectivity of multiple countries for the targeted purposes. China increasing leadership influences in the region is impelling United States and its partner countries such as India, Japan, US, Taiwan, South Korea and Philippines which have been confronting against China interest and the region is transferring into a new regional geopolitical tension and seeming to drag into new cold war between Sino-US. The free and open Indo-pacific concept reinvigorate 1906 by the Japanese prim minister Shinzo Abe with the American cooperation. In 2019, United States has formalized the concept and referred many Southeast Asia and European Union States to the Indo-Pacific. The concept has been criticized by the China official that it a closed and exclusive group structure and called for open and inclusive Asia-Pacific which does not target any third country.