The Indo-Pacific is a strategic system encompassing the Indian and Pacific oceans, reflecting the expanding interests and reach of China and India as well as the enduring role of the US. The Lowy Institute's International Security program presents a weekly selection of links illuminating the changing security picture in this increasingly connected super-region.
- The US Department of Defense released a new Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Strategy this week. Andrew Erickson said the document doesn't go far enough.
- The new Strategy also calls for US military forces on Guam to be reinforced.
- North and South Korea reached an agreement earlier this week that ended their heated standoff. Aidan Foster-Carter wrote in The Guardian that this crisis was particularly worrying.
- What North Korean state media was reporting during the crisis.
- In competing news conferences, both Indian and Pakistani officials accused the other of trying to sabotage an upcoming meeting between their respective national security advisers.
- Those talks were eventually cancelled. Here's Shyam Saran on the aftermath.
- Next month's Australian-Indian naval exercise will focus on anti-submarine warfare.
- China's Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig will continue drilling in the South China Sea until 20 October.
- A long-form piece in The New Republic on the competition between the US and China over global food supply.(ThanksPip.)