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China's power ambitions in the Pacific region are growing ever stronger. The United States and its allies are trying to counter this. This increases the risk of armed conflict. While the Ukraine war is currently the focus of media coverage in Europe, another area of crisis and tension has developed at the other end of the world, in South-East Asia. China's rise to naval power and its aggressive, primarily maritime expansionist ambitions, as well as North Korea's increasingly provocative missile and nuclear tests, have shaped security policy in the Indo-Pacific and transformed it into an area of crisis and tension with growing potential for military escalation. At the same time, China is colliding with the regulatory and security policy ideas of the...