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Excellent article.

It's seems this is closely related to the US/UK/France(/Germany?) partnerships in military industrial compexes, arms sales, securing financial arrangements in the East, and thus military posturing in and around the China Sea with carrier groups. In my view the most relevant bit is:

This is why Britain’s Indo-Pacific tilt matters to the United States and key regional partners, most notably Japan, Australia, India, and, indeed, France. Britain’s integrated review is evidence of an intellectual shift that recognizes the structural challenges of revisionist regimes and endeavors to proactively dedicate relevant resources to meet them. It is a shift that, in the Indo-Pacific, draws upon a positive agenda to shape the security environment, promote broader partnerships, and enhance operational effectiveness in a way that naturally interacts with the themes of the Biden administration’s notion of “integrated deterrence.”