A Concert of Democracies: The Big US Plan in Asia?

A. Panda, Diplomat
Taking Harris’ recent comments on the possibility of U.S.-India-Japan trilateral exercises in the South China Sea and a possible resumption of the QSD nearly a decade later together, it’s clear that the United States is working to coalesce multiple networks of like-minded Asian states concerned about China’s revanchism in the South China Sea. The trilateral exercise in particular, if it does come to pass, will be a major moment in the evolution of multilateral security activities in the South China Sea.