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Detailed explanation-1: -This national strategy outlines that approach and commits the United States to its success. ISLANDS. The United States is committed to an Indo-Pacific that is free and open, connected, prosperous, secure, and resilient.

Detailed explanation-2: -Origins. The German geopolitician Karl Haushofer first used “Indo-Pacific” in the 1920s in multiple works on geography and geopolitics: Geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean (1924), Building Blocks of Geopolitics (1928), Geopolitics of Pan-Ideas (1931), and German Cultural Politics in the Indo-Pacific Space (1939).

Detailed explanation-3: -Today, the Indo-Pacific makes up more than one-third of all global economic activity. Three of the world’s largest economies-the People’s Republic of China (China), India and Japan-are in this part of the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Japan introduced the FOIP concept and formally put it down as a strategy in 2016. In 2019 the United States Department of State published a document formalizing its concept of a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Indo-Pacific Strategy, launched last November by the federal government, outlines Canada’s plan to engage with countries in the region, with a goal to pivot away from this nation’s over-reliance on China amid increasing tensions between Ottawa and Beijing.