¹Eryn Sobarini, ²Deni Dadang Ahmad Rajab, ³Surryanto Djoko Waluyo

^1,2,3Indonesia Defense University

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v4-i12-74

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ABSTRACT

Indo-Pacific is one of strategic region with complex political interest because of huge area and many involved country including major countries such as China and United States. The increase of China’s power in the region caused security dilemma for other countries. United States is one of major power that feels threatened with the rise of China. United States have a lot of cooperation with other major countries and the newest one is trilateral cooperation with Australia and United Kingdom in AUKUS Pact. AUKUS Pact caused a different reaction from countries in Indo-Pacific region. In the perspective of security dilemma, AUKUS Pact is one of United States’s security dilemma because of the rise of China. The AUKUS Pact point is help Australia to have a nuclear submarines. AUKUS Pact is not an arms race but at some point AUKUS Pact can escalated arms race in Indo-Pacific region.

KEYWORDS:

Indo-Pacific, AUKUS Pact, Security Dilemma, China, United States

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