South China Sea is a critical sea for trade, energy and shipping industry. Tensions in South China Sea have led to instability and increase in insurance costs for freight shipping.
China has been building new facilities at Triton island and has been expanding the air strip for operating maritime surveillance aircrafts and other rotary wing assets.The island which is close to Vietnam is only 4000 feet by 2000 feet in a...
The United States and the Philippines have enjoyed 75 years of diplomatic relations since President Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Philippines an independent republic in 1975..
The actions of Chinese survey ships in the Indian Ocean have recently attracted a lot of interest. These survey ships have been operating in the area on a variety of missions while carrying cutting-edge equipment and research instruments. T...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
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 ...
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...
For any nation, maintaining its national security interests, is one of its top most priorities. In order to do so, nation states have made use of many devices that do not generally fall under the traditional military use. One such device is...
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 ...
Centre for Security and Strategic Studies, organized (November 29) an international conference on the topic ‘The South China Sea: Current Challenges and Future Perspective’ at India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi. During the conferen...
