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Indian Ocean Power Struggle Editor's Note
This feature opens a series by Copley News Service’s Washington bureau chief, tracing the Indian Ocean’s emergence as a pivotal arena in multi-polar world politics from Malacca to the Persian Gulf. The piece sketches colonial legacies, shifting power vacuums, and how the United States, Soviet Union, China, Japan, and European states seek influence across ports, sea lanes, and littoral states.
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Indian Ocean
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Strait of Malacca
Persian Gulf
Middle East
United States
Soviet Union
China
Moscow
Japan
Southeast Asia
India
Arab Nations
Europe
Western
Iran
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Yalta
Azerbaijan
Russia
Caspian Sea
Harry Truman
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Pakistan
Stalin