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Thursday, 2 July 2020

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"Indo-Pacific" is the new code word for "contain China".

It’s an approach built on tensions between India and China brutally evidenced in a recent border dispute.

Significantly, it is a phrase increasingly being used by New Zealand, Professor Robert Patman says.

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