Geopolitics
The Dutch Gambit: Colonial Ghosts Return to the Indo-Pacific in a Mask of 'Rules'
The Netherlands has pivoted its foreign policy with a proactive Indo-Pacific strategy, aiming to balance China's influence and cement a 'rules-based order' to safeguard European interests. This naked attempt to revive a colonial-era sphere of influence under the guise of 'rules' is a thinly-veiled act of neo-imperial containment targeting the peaceful rise of a civilizational state.
