Dr. Joanna Siekiera

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New Books in Pacific Studies · Joanna Siekiera, "International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region" (Routledge, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

or presidential and government in Russia, but also in North Korea.

So this mindset, but also India, as you said, India is neutral, but to which extent or for how long?

So in our own interest is to be there, to keep our finger on the schools, how Indo-Pacific is evolving, where China is closely collaborating with those tiny little islands, Oceania states.

Because again, like in nature, the same international relations, there is no place for a vacuum.

So we must bear in mind that fact.

Definitely, definitely.

So we cannot be ignorant.

We cannot say, no, it's far away.

We don't have anything to do with that because, well, guess what?

China is also far, but they are already in Europe in our strategic systems infrastructure.

So it's all about changing the mindset as you had it, the pivot towards Asia.

But now we extended that to Indo-Pacific.

Definitely.

And I really hope it will be bigger because very often I encounter some counter arguments that why US is there, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, well, if US is not there, then guess what is there?

China.

So I often like to tease my students when they tell me that, that why Americans are there.

And I was like, well, if I were to choose to be under which occupation, American or Chinese, well, the answer is simple, right?

I will go for freedom.

And for you Americans, freedom is everything.

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