India, July 2 -- Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi's recent visit to Seychelles underscores the growing centrality of the Indian Ocean to India's strategic calculus. It also provides an opportunity to examine a broader transformation unfolding across the wider Indo-Pacific. India's expanding outreach across the Indian Ocean and Australia's growing security engagement in the Pacific reflect the increasing strategic importance of the two maritime theatres that the Indo-Pacific framework sought to connect. At the same time, Washington appears to be rethinking the strategic logic that has underpinned its engagement across this wider region. The result is not a single coordinated shift, but an evolving regional order in which the organising pr...