The new likely US president Joe Biden when he assumes charge would have to address the question of US forces withdrawal from Afghanistan. With increasing attacks by Taliban in Afghanistan and inroads by Islamic state it would be a hard deci...
China continues to browbeat its neighbours on all its frontiers and seeks to further bolster its influence and establish its maritime imprint in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) under its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In response India has o...
India and Philippines have signed the defence cooperation agreement in the year 2006. Since then there have been regular interactions between armed forces personnel, and also liaison visits by the high-ranking officials, and naval ships. Jo...
China has been investing in Asia and Africa so as to further its trade and investment prospects under BRI, and one of the means that it has adopted in Africa is to develop ports and associated infrastructure. This is meant to harness resour...
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, is an island country located between Oceania and Southeast Asia. It occupies the eastern part of the Timor Island which is the largest and the easternmost island in the Lesser Sunda Archipelago. The we...
On November 4th 2019, Thailand passed the baton of ASEAN leadership to Vietnam. Vietnam officially became part of the ASEAN community in 1995 and became its 7th member. It remained outside the grouping during the Cold War era, and the ASEAN...
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 ...
In the document titled ‘Germany – Europe – Asia: shaping the 21st century together’( 72 pages document)outlined the new role that Germany envisaged for the European union. The country is the European Union (EU) chair and also one of the mos...
In September 15, 2020, Israel has signed Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain which aims at normalising the relations between the three nations. These include security and scientific cooperation, direct flights, commercial activities, t...
Afghanistan has been a battleground for many years. There have been intense battles of ideologies, powers, business and even in in the sphere of who helped in establishing a stable, peaceful order. Afghanistan’s strategic locations make it ...
