Tech-centric Partnership in the Indo-Pacific to Deter Digital Curtain

Tech-centric Partnership in the Indo-Pacific to Deter Digital Curtain

From Pakistan in the Indian Ocean to Kiribati in Oceania, a digital curtain is falling across the Indo-Pacific. Various actors are leveraging cyberspace and technological advancements to implement an alternative vision to a free and open Indo-Pacific—a direct affront to democracies and American strategic interests. It is reported that 77 percent of all known state-backed cyber operations emanate from China and its associates, while those attacks…