【英文】丹麦国际问题研究所报告：西方如何在印太地区建立志同道合的联盟（29页）

This report maps and examines not only how and to what extent Western  governments, both individually and collectively, employ such identity-based  geostrategic practices, but also how China and the ASEAN countries have  responded. Notwithstanding considerable diversity among the Western countries,  the report demonstrates that they, as a US-led group, have adopted a remarkably  strong common stance in the past two years, collectively portraying themselves  as a coalition of like-minded states, sharing a broad set of liberal values and principles  beyond a commitment to a rules-based order. 

Moreover, they have consolidated  their common stance by promoting a narrative about safeguarding a ‘Free and Open  With the Indo-Pacific emerging as a pivotal geostrategic arena against the backdrop  of intensified US-China great power competition, IR scholars and regional experts  have rushed to explore the military, economic, infrastructural, technological and  other key dynamics of this new regional landscape. What has received far less  attention, however, is how the Indo-Pacific is being actively shaped by collective  identity-constructing practices of coalition-building and boundary-drawing. Indeed,  like-mindedness – the idea of sharing basic political values and principles – seems  to have become an important criterion for Western countries as they rapidly expand  their strategic engagement with, and coalition-building in, the Indo-Pacific region,  while also distancing themselves from China, some even depicting it as an outsider.  Indo-Pacific’ in the face of China’s coercive and assertive behaviour.