On 4th November 2019, the US, Japan, and Australia jointly announced the Blue Dot Network (BDN) at the Indo-Pacific Business Forum in Thailand during the 35th ASEAN Summit. This initiative seeks to employ a multi-stakeholder approach to pro...
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional organisation of the ten South–East Asian countries- Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, has been cooperating in v...
In recent times, the Indo-Pacific has become the largest geo-strategic cum political hotspot of the world. In terms of Cartographic Schematics, Indo-Pacific broadly covers the area between the western coast of the US and the eastern shores ...
As tensions escalate across the Indo-Pacific, the United States has seemingly initiated a renewed power plan for the region. Today, a majority of the tensions are concentrated around the South China Sea, where the US, China, Vietnam and the...
The world at present is reeling under the deadly Coronavirus(COVID-19), which has led to an imbalance in the fiscal markets, inevitably overthrowing the world economics and tarnishing the heath care facilities to an absolute mayhem. China w...
Following the escalating tensions between India and China at Eastern Ladakh region, and not so congenial relations between China and Australia, it has been felt that there is a need for greater cooperation between India, Japan and Australia...
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), established in 1969, has been at the forefront of space revolution in India. Very recently, on June 24, 2020, the Union Government under Prime Minister Modi opened India’s space sector to private p...
The Indo-Pacific region, it is the most vital region for any country to wield influence because of its trade and strategic importance. With the rise of China, the great game is on, to increase their influence and control vital strategic cho...
“International politics is a nasty and dangerous business, and no amount of goodwill can ameliorate the intense security competition that sets in when an aspiring hegemon appears in Eurasia.” John J. Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer wrote ‘China’s ...
In 2019, ASEAN leaders acknowledged the Indo-Pacific as a geopolitical imagination, but have reinforced their commitment to the ASEAN-centered regional architecture. The ASEAN stance was manifested through a document ‘ASEAN Outlook on the I...
As the COVID-19 pandemic and China’s antagonistic strategies have begun to alter political and economic dynamics across the globe, it is only likely that many countries will now adjust their foreign policies and strategies as well. It has b...
The Indo-Pacific region that marks the importance of the confluence of two huge oceans viz. the Indian and Pacific Oceans, has become the key hotspot globally, even surpassing the middle east region. It has also turned out to be one of the ...
