Balancing China in the Indo-Pacific: France Joins Hands with India and Australia

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's co-authored Brief ‘Balancing China in the Indo-Pacific: France Joins Hands with India and Australia’ has been published by the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden, on November 02, 2020.

The brief argues that balancing China’s unilateral authoritarian outreach is increasingly becoming a priority for democratic powers. Among European powers, France has taken the lead in shoring up defenses against China. France is also an Indo-Pacific power, and Paris has now joined hands with India and Australia to advance a trilateral that appears to be balancing out China.

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