The IPEF was launched on May 23, 2022 jointly by US and other countries of Indo Pacific region. It was initially composed of 14 founding member nations. Fiji was the first South Pacific Island nation to join the group. The invitation to oth...
The 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper presented Australia with bilateral security cooperation, free trade, and transnational ties. It made clear that globalization has created a world with more interdependence. However, these connections were...
The Prime Ministers of India, Japan, and Australia, as well as the US President, launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) on May 24, a day before the Quad leaders' second in-person Summit in Tokyo, with Indonesia, South Korea, Ma...
The Indo-Pacific is gaining prominence due to shared interests and convergences among multiple significant countries, each with its own influences and objectives. The increasing mobility across the seas has contributed to the development of...
In the next few days, India would be hosting the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida from 19 March 2022 to 20 March 2022. It has to be understood that India and Japan already share a long-lasting friendship and since 2000s, both the count...
Under the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance document released by Whitehouse in April 2021 there are few priority areas which have been highlighted. There are five major pillars: ‘rising nationalism, challenges to democracy, US gr...
In the mid of 2019, the publication by Wall Street Journal proclaimed that China and Cambodia have signed a secret military agreement. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about Cambodia's relationship with China and its future p...
As the U.S.- China relationship finds itself locked into the irreversible trajectory of strategic competition, the Cold War 2.0 seems plausible. While some scholars argues that New Cold War is already hovering over the Unites States and Chi...
Western industry and security experts worry about their falling behind China in the competition for 5G communication development and deployment consequently leading China to become dominant in the new area which is supposed to revolutionize...
In the depth of the oceans, there is a huge availability of the minerals which are very critical for the usage of modern technological systems. Starting from mobile phones to renewable energy systems like electric cars, deep-sea minerals ar...
Prime Minister Suga’s visit to the United States of America could not come at a more diplomatically difficult time. The status quo is not only riddled with national economic issues, disputes on international waters, intervention on the sove...
Maritime security and sovereign control depend on 2 major metrics. Firstly, the naval fleets of the nations concerned allow them to demarcate their military strength and presence in the maritime area. Naval fleets allow them a certain recog...
