In 2014, the Philippines and the US signed an agreement that allowed the US to build facilities on the country's military bases. The alliance between the nations is driven by threats. As China's power has increased, the relationship between...
ASEAN leaders have in-principle agreed to admit Timor-Leste. But this admission is conditioned upon Timor-Leste successfully fulfilling a criteria-based roadmap. This objective roadmap has not yet been drafted, let alone put up for adoption...
On December 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a three-day visit after clinching a third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission, and effecti...
Japan launched its most significant military buildup since World War II earlier this month, with a $320 billion plan to acquire missiles capable of countering its regional threats and prepare it for any kind of long-term battle. The regiona...
Russia, a communist country, and Iran, an Islamic regime, have long maintained a complex and delicate relationship that alternates between hostility and collaboration. However, the world community has seen how their relationship has consist...
Edward Snowden, widely regarded as the most important whistleblower in human history, was previously a US citizen. He began working for the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2006, and then in 2009 he left the CIA to join the Nat...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an international grouping of eight member states (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan), four observer states (Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongol...
India and the United States of America (USA) due to their shared value interests and the convergence of policies have led to their bilateral engagement being termed a “global strategic partnership”. In the past few years, India’s emphasis o...
According to quantum physics, all energy and matter are made up of quanta particles. Long-term goals of quantum information technology research include developing ways for controlling and manipulating quantum systems in order to expand info...
Shinzo Abe, the recently assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister, is remembered for his astute leadership and had many impeccable achievements to his legacy. One among those was to kickstart the Japanese military modernization and upgra...
A small island nation in the Pacific, the Republic of Nauru, holding just over 12,000 inhabitants on its 21 km²of areas, has gained a lot of traction as it notified the International Seabed Authority of the intention of its sponsored entity...
Indian interests post-Cold War for Sri Lanka made a shift from a balance of power to more pragmatic security considerations. In the 1980s and 1990s, India was avoiding being engulfed in the Cold War power struggle which led to the negligenc...
