The US’ Big Plans for the Indo-Pacific

The biggest challenge ahead is diplomatic.

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Phillip Orchard
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Over the past month, the U.S. has been rolling out a comprehensive theory of strategic competition against China, with all sorts of grand plans for how to enact it. The stated goals run an ambitious gamut, collectively making the case that stronger deterrence measures are sorely needed beyond the world of guns and bombs. Still, […]

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Phillip Orchard
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Phillip Orchard is an analyst at Geopolitical Futures. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Orchard spent nearly six years at Stratfor, working as an editor and writing about East Asian geopolitics. He’s spent more than six years abroad, primarily in Southeast Asia and Latin America, where he’s had formative, immersive experiences with the problems arising from mass political upheaval, civil conflict and human migration. Mr. Orchard holds a master’s degree in Security, Law and Diplomacy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where he focused on energy and national security, Chinese foreign policy, intelligence analysis, and institutional pathologies. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas. He speaks Spanish and some Thai and Lao.

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