In his 2022 article “The Bay of Bengal Could be the Key to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific,” Anu Anwar argued that the Bay of Bengal is a microcosm of the emerging multi-polar world order, with its massive population centers, transnational challenges, and latent natural resources. Three years on, as the winds of change have blown across the Indo-Pacific, we asked him to reevaluate his argument. Image: Indian Navy via X In your 2022 article, “The Bay of Bengal Could be the Key to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific,” you described the Bay of Bengal as “a test case for
