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How the U.S. Learned to Stop Worrying About the Pacific and Love the ‘Indo-Pacific’
In early 2017, U.S. and Japanese strategists were poring over maps on the top floor of the U.S. State Department. Satoshi Suzuki, a Japanese official, and Brian Hook, his U.S. counterpart, zoomed in on almost every touch point in Asia: the honeymoon …