US President Donald Trump isn’t just remaking American foreign policy in Asia by tearing up trade deals and getting tough on North Korea. His administration is giving the region a whole new name. File photo: Reuters
It’s no longer Asia-Pacific, Donald Trump says. US now calls it ‘Indo-Pacific’
By using ‘Indo-Pacific’, the administration wants to propagate the idea that it’s a region that stretches far beyond China’s backyard and the tiger economies of East Asia
