Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment: Key Developments and Trends

Presents Asia-Pacific regional security assessment. Contains the deterioration in United State-China relations and Trump’s Indo-Pacific strategy. Explores the end of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in Asia and the United States’ regional alliances and partnerships Describes Japan and Indo-Pacific security and Japan’s assertive regional security posture and its complex relations with South Korea. Examines Indonesia and the South China Sea under Jokowi president. Covers Australia’s evolving regional security outlook and the challenges to a stronger European role in Asian security.