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Sep 18, 2026

Assessing Germany’s Indo-Pacific Engagement: What Lessons for Italy?

Patrick Köllner, Oliver Schramm...

Germany’s Indo-Pacific engagement since 2020 illustrates both continuity and adaptation. While the original guidelines provided a flexible and inclusive framework, the evolving geopolitical environment has required gradual strategic recalibration. Germany’s experience offers no blueprint for other European actors, but it does provide several strategically relevant lessons.

Sep 18, 2026

China and Taiwan in Germany’ s Approach to the Indo-Pacific: Evolution, but no Revolution

Gudrun Wacker

While China has in no way become less important from the German perspective (economically, strategically and in terms of global order), the assessment of Beijing’s behavior and aspirations has become more critical over this period of time. At the same time, Taiwan has cautiously been “upgraded” as a partner.

Sep 18, 2026

Tougher Talk, Careful Steps in the Indo-Pacific: Germany’s Foreign Policy under Friedrich Merz

Linda Liang

The German government under Friedrich Merz has announced a tougher stance on China and more European alignment on foreign policy. This article examines whether these rhetorical shifts have translated into a more strategic and coherent German approach toward the Indo-Pacific during the coalition’s first nine months in office.

Sep 18, 2026

Germany’s Security Engagement with the Indo-Pacific: Implementation of the 2020 Policy Guidelines in a Changing Strategic Environment

Clara Hörning

This chapter paper assesses Germany's security engagement with the Indo-Pacific in the five years since the publication of the 2020 Policy Guidelines for the Indo-Pacific, asking how this engagement has evolved and to what extent Germany's stated strategic objectives are matched by its observable behaviour and material commitment.

Sep 18, 2026

On the Rise of Chinese Aid in Southeast Asia: Contextualised Perspectives for European Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Context After the Fall of USAID

Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux

After long years of focusing on the African continent, the dynamics of China’s global expansion of foreign assistance have placed Asia at the forefront of Beijing’s priorities with the Belt and Road Initiative. Nevertheless, in Southeast Asia, traditional donors (Europe, the United States and Japan) have remained more generous, albeit…

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