Goodbye INDOPACOM and hello (again) Middle Eastern distractions.
Goodbye INDOPACOM and hello (again) Middle Eastern distractions.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts the First Plenary: U.S. Strategy for Peace in the Indo-Pacific during the IISS Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore, Singapore, May 30, 2026.
Today on The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast hosts Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) and Katie Putz (@LadyPutz) take stock of U.S. Asia policy at the midpoint of 2026, discussing the recent renaming of INDOPACOM and last month’s Shangri-La Dialogue. What are the perception of U.S. Asia policy among regional players amid recurrent distractions caused by conflicts in the Middle East and the uncertain future of China-U.S. relations?
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Ankit Panda is editor-at-large at The Diplomat and the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.
Catherine Putz is managing editor of The Diplomat.
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