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Conflict & Security April 20, 2026 419 stories in this edition

How new US-Indonesia defence pact sharpens China’s ‘Malacca dilemma’

SCMP Asia / Asia / 1m ago / Julien Chaisse
How new US-Indonesia defence pact sharpens China’s ‘Malacca dilemma’

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Indonesia says it is not choosing sides. That is true in diplomacy. It is less true on the map. The “major defence cooperation partnership” announced by Washington and Jakarta on April 13 is written in the safe language of official communiques: capacity building, education, exercises, cooperation. But the harder meaning lies beneath the phrasing. The most important line in this new defence partnership is not the reas...

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Indonesia says it is not choosing sides. That is true in diplomacy. It is less true on the map. The “major defence cooperation partnership” announced by Washington and Jakarta on April 13 is written in the safe language...

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