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The Indo-Pacific is often framed as a contest between two poles. Look closer and the more interesting story is the thickening web of arrangements among middle powers.
Minilateral groupings, defence-industrial partnerships and supply-chain compacts increasingly operate alongside, rather than beneath, great-power competition. They give smaller actors more options and raise the cost of coercion.
The risk is fragmentation. Without common rules for interoperability and crisis communication, a crowded security landscape can multiply miscalculation rather than reduce it.
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