Representatives from the 27 EU Member States, some 20 countries in the Indo-Pacific region, the European Commission, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in Paris, on 22 February, for an Indo-Pacific Cooperation Forum. This event, organised at the initiative of the French Presidency of the Council of the EU (FPEU), reaffirmed the European Union’s ambition to strengthen the various partnerships in the area, as described in the strategy presented by the Commission in...