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Chapter 4
               Analysis and Recommendations








                     United States asserts that ‘China         region to its advantage by leveraging

               seeks to displace the United States in the      military  modernization,  influence
               Indo-Pacific region, expand the reaches of      operations, and predatory economics to
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               its state-driven economic model, and            coerce other nations’.  Since then name         Implications to ASEAN
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               reorder the region in its favor’.  In other     for the US Pacific Command (USPACOM)
               words ‘the People’s Republic of China,          has been changed to US Indo-Pacific
               under the leadership of the Chinese             Command (USINDOPACOM).

               Communist Party, seeks to reorder the                                                              Evolving Geo-Strategic Matrix in South China Sea:



















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               42   US Government (2017), National Security Strategy of the United States of America, p. 25
               43    US Department of Defense (2019), Indo-Pacific Strategy Report: Preparedness, Partnerships and
                  Promoting a Networked Region
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