Together with the Korean embassy, the AIA NRW took the lead in organizing an Indo-Pacific conference in Düsseldorf. The Indo-Pacific region will take on greater geostrategic significance, not least in light of the election results in the US election campaign.
As a growth region of central geo-strategic importance, the Indo-Pacific region yields enormous potential for meaningful cooperation. Germany has started to show a stronger interest in working more closely with partners in the region, particularly democracies, but still lacks a clear strategic focus. Given the risk of a confrontation between the US and China, strengthening the efforts of key partners like Japan and South Korea by supporting deterrence measures in the region will be an important goal.
Initiatives in Germany and NRW for joint economic activities in key sectors, cultural exchange and cooperation in areas such as climate protection could lead to a stronger mutual interest and deeper cooperation that goes beyond debates around a de-risking strategy towards China. Experts from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, the Hamburg GIGA Institute, the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and the Korean research institute ASAN Institute for Policy Studies (ASAN), Seoul shared their insights and assessment on these and many other vital questions with an interested audience of around 30 people in the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf .
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