Indo-Pacific Strategy for whom?

Abstract

This article aims to, first, illustrate that Trump’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy and Biden’s Indo-Pacific Strategy are the continuity in U.S. foreign policy towards Indo-Pacific region in that the U.S. wants to reclaim its regional leadership and to contain China’s influence expansion, which has taken place since the U.S. refrained from the region at the end of the Cold War. Second, the U.S. policies towards Indo-Pacific region from Obama’s Pivot to Asia-Pacific to Trump’s and Biden’s Indo-Pacific are all to serve the U.S. national interest in both economic and security aspects. Third, the article will compare the similarities and the differences among the foreign policies of the three U.S. presidents, namely Obama, Trump, and Biden, towards Asia-Pacific/Indo-Pacific region in order to analyze their impacts for the prosperity and security of the American people.