Regional Responses to U.S.-China Competition in the Indo-Pacific
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) National Defense Strategy highlights the important role that U.S. allies and partners play in U.S.-China strategic competition. America's strong and enduring relationships with our allies and partners offer the United States unique advantages in long-term competition with China - the United States is not competing with China on its own, but can draw from allied and partner resources, capabilities, and strengths that far exceed what China can bring to bear. As DoD focuses on long-term strategic competition with China, understanding how U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region are responding and adjusting their own approaches to China will be crucial to ensuring the success of U.S. strategy. This report on India is part of a project that aims to understand the perspectives of U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific as they formulate and implement their responses to China's more assertive foreign and security policy behavior in the region and a more competitive U.S.-China relationship. The research also assesses how DoD, particularly the U.S. Air Force, can best deepen and improve its ability to work with allies and partners to maintain U.S. advantage in long-term strategic competition with China. The other reports in this series are available at www.rand.org/US-PRC-influence.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 25, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1134050
Entities
People
- Jonah Blank
Organizations
- RAND Corporation