Abstract
This article calls for an expansion in the study of Asian geopolitics beyond the Indo-Pacific axis. China’s geostrategic rise and that of Asia’s other main powers are phenomena that bear multiple maritime and continental manifestations. Insofar as Asia’s powers meet in different regions, the “primary” Indo-Pacific theater cannot be isolated from developments in Central, South, Southeast, Northeast Asia, the northwestern Pacific, or the Arctic. By conceptualizing seapower and landpower as an interactive dyad in geostrategy and zooming in on the maritime and continental directions of China, India, and Russia, this article depicts Asia as an increasingly interdependent geopolitical whole.