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China, the United States, and India are competing for hard power in the political, economic, and security realms in Nepal and Bangladesh.

After skimming Japan’s new defense white paper, one gets the sense that Asia is on fire. The 30-page strategy is screaming with warnings about the rules-based order coming under threat from resurgent authoritarian states (i.e., China and Russia) that are operating on a “might makes right” mentality. “Japan is facing the most severe and complex security environment since the end of World War II,” the Japanese Defense Ministry makes clear in its introduction.

Aim described as “to make sure the channels with the Myanmar junta remain open, because they need to know what the Chinese are doing”

Conventionally, the use of military and economic means to influence international actors is contemplated as hard power

India adopted the “Look East” policy in the 1990s to revive the importance of Southeast Asia in its foreign policy agenda and focus