These realms constitute the Indo-Pacific, which, according to geopolitical thinker Robert D. Southeast Asia is situated at the crossroads of three geostrategic realms: the East Asian, the Asia-Pacific, and the emerging South Asian realm. As I shall later elaborate, many experts remind us in complacent Europe that this area is poised to be the pivot of the 21st century, the century of the Indo-Pacific, a region divided and connected by Southeast Asia that largely defines the coming decades in terms of great power war or lasting peace. Arguably, no region on the globe is more diverse than Southeast Asia. This region is also home to hundreds of millions of people from all major religions, thousands of ethnicities and languages. It both separates the surrounding oceans and landmasses and connects them in the maritime realm through its navigable straits. There is no other place on Earth which has such duality as this grand geographic stripe that combines a mainland territory and a chain of islands spanning more than 6,000 kilometres in length from Myanmar to the Eastern edge of Indonesia. On our planet, every place is unique in its own way, but, if we could identify “degrees of uniqueness,” an obvious candidate for the most outstanding and complex region would be Southeast Asia, without doubt.
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