Timeline of Key Events: Indo-Pacific Politics
| 2007 | The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD), commonly known as the Quad, was initiated in 2007 by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with the support of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US Vice President Dick Cheney. |
| 2013 | The Australian Government’s Defense White Paper |
| 08. 2016 | Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) concept |
| 05. 2018 | French president Emmanuel Macron spelt out France’s Indo-Pacific Strategy during his visit to the Garden Island Naval Base at Sydney. |
| 05.2018 | U.S. Pacific Command is renamed U.S. Indo-Pacific Command |
| 06. 2019 | ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific |
| 11. 2019 | A Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Advancing a Shared Vision issued by the White House
The Blue Dot Network (BDN) is formed by the USA, Japan and Australia to provide assessment and certification of infrastructure development projects worldwide on measures of financial transparency, environmental sustainability, and impact on economic development, with the goal of mobilizing private capital to invest abroad. |
| 09. 2020 | The German government adopts policy guidelines on the Indo-Pacific Region: “Germany-Europe-Asia: Shaping the 21st Century Together” |
| 11.2020 | Indo-Pacific: Guidelines for Stregnthening Dutch and EU Cooperation with Partners in Asia |
| 03. 2021 | Global Britain in a Competitive Age: The Integrated Review of Security, Defense, Development and Foreign Policy indicates UK’s Indo-Pacific tilt |
| Spring 2021 | Japan, India and Australia launch the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative |
| 06.2021 | Build Back Better World (B3W) launched by G7 |
| 09.2021 | The EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy |
| 12.2021 | The European Commission unveiled its Global Gateway Strategy |
| 02. 2022 | Indo-Pacific Strategy of the United States |
| 02. 2022 | France’s Indo-Pacific Strategy |
| 05. 2022 | Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) launched by American president Joe Biden |
| 12. 2022 | South Korea: Strategy for a Free, Peaceful and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region |