If, over the last centuries, the global center of power has shifted West from Europe to America, it kept on moving and now hovers somewhere over the Pacific. Instead of a hegemonic Empire dominating as superpower, we have a multipolar world. There is a new Asian Great Game, and the Indo-Pacific is the crucible in which the geopolitical order of the twenty-first century will be forged. With the Covid-19 pandemic as a fresh catalyst to changes that were already underway, this rebalancing will have