U.S. eyes China’s power game
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The U.S. military has renamed its former Pacific Command as the Indo-Pacific Command, reflecting Washington’s growing attention to China’s “two-ocean” strategy of conducting high-intensity naval operations in both the Pacific and Indian Oceans

People’s Liberation Army Navy base 
U.S. naval base / air base
India naval base / monitoring base
U.S. Collective Defence Arrangements
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DJIBOUTI: Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy military base and strategic U.S. base, Camp Lemonnier
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BAHRAIN: U.S. Fifth Fleet HQ
SAUDI
ARABIA Gwadar
Chittagong
Kyauk Pyu
Chinhae S. KOREA
PACIFIC OCEAN
Yokosuka JAPAN Sasebo
ARABIAN SEA
SOMALIA SEYCHELLES
Karwar Kochi
THAILAND Port Blair
Visakhapatnam
Hambantota
SRI LANKA
BANGLADESH
MYANMAR
PAKISTAN
INDIA Mumbai
2nd Island Chain

China is developing its naval capability to dominate as far east as so-called “second island chain” and as far west as Middle East and Africa

Diego Garcia: Controlled by UK. Critical in supporting U.S. and British combat efforts in Horn of Africa and Middle East

Darwin 
AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND
Pine Gap
MAURITIUS INDIAN OCEAN
MADAGASCAR
CHINA
Qingdao  Ningbo
Zhanjiang
SOUTH CHINA SEA
INDONESIA
Okinawa
1st Island Chain
Yulin: Nuclear submarine base
Cesar Basa PHILIPPINES
Guam

2,000km 1,240 miles

U.S.-Australia monitoring station
AIRCRAFT 1,000+ 
Harold E. Holt: VLF radio signals to U.S. Navy ships, submarines
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U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Component Commands
USINDOPACOM commander:
Admiral Philip S. Davidson
HQ: Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii
361,000 Military and civilian personnel, including 1,200+ special forces

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U.S. Pacific Fleet
PERSONNEL 140,000
SHIPS 200 Including five aircraft carrier strike groups

U.S. Army Pacific
106,000
309

Marine Corps Forces, Pacific
86,000 
640

U.S. Pacific Air Forces
29,000 300+
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Sources: BBC, Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, USINDOPACOM Picture: Associated Press
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