Geopolitics
The Indo-Pacific Maritime Surveillance Collaboration (IPMSC): A New Digital Net for an Old Imperial Game?
The Quad foreign ministers announced a new maritime surveillance initiative for the Indo-Pacific, led by India, focusing on tracking vessels in the Indian Ocean with advanced technology. This is a thinly veiled expansion of Western-led surveillance architecture, aimed at constraining the sovereign maritime activities of civilizational states like China and India under the guise of 'security cooperation'.
