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.
In the early morning of August 28, the international community was taken aback by an unexpected event that would have far-reaching consequences. China, known for its assertive stance on territorial claims, released its highly anticipated ne...
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...
On June 19, Rajnath Singh, the Indian defence minister, met with General Phan Van Giang, the national defence minister of Vietnam in New Delhi to discuss about stregthening of India and Vietnam’s bilateral ties. General Phan Van Giang was o...
The large region including the Indian Ocean and the western and central Pacific Oceans is referred to as the Indo-Pacific. It is a dynamic and important strategic region that has recently drawn more attention.The name "Indo-Pacific" emphasi...
The trilateral maritime exercise in the South China Sea between the coast guards of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines marked a major stepping stone towards trilateral cooperation and coordination in maritime law enforcement, sec...
Southeast Asia was a crucial theatre during the Second World War between the Japanese Empire and the Allied powers. Then followed the Cold War, which spread throughout most of Southeast Asia and was particularly destructive in Cambodia, Lao...
The recently concluded inaugural ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise (AIME-2023) in the South China Sea signifies the deepening military ties between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and India. The exercise showcased the partici...
A $2 billion worth deal between Vietnam and Russia in December 2009 led to six kilo-class submarines being inducted in the Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN). Additionally, the deal includes training programs from the Vietnamese naval crew in Russ...
On 15 April 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Vietnamese PM Phan Minh Chinh and other high-ranking government officials in Vietnam thanking him for the decade-long success of the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership. H...
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...
During a three-day visit to Vietnam, India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh and his counterpart in the Vietnamese government General Phan Van Giang signed the Joint Vision Statement on India-Vietnam Defence Partnership towards 2030. This...
