India’s all-weather friend Japan has been the most supportive in the present times when Chinese aggressiveness is at an all high against India, especially in the Ladakh region. The Japanese Ambassador to India, Satoshi Suzuki quoted that “t...
The COVID- 19 pandemic first appeared in Wuhan, Hubei - China and has spread worldwide, causing unprecedented suffering in human history, affecting human life, and ushering in severe economic recession worldwide. While vaccines have not bee...
The one of its kind virtual summit meeting between Prime Ministers of India and Australia - Narendra Modi and Scott Morrison is going to take place on June 4th and the agenda for the meeting is already long. Given the post-Covid 19 dynamics...
On April 17th 2020, at the PLA website, China designated two of the occupied islands groups- Spratlys and Paracels as its two new districts under the Sansha city administration located in Hainan. The two groups of islands have been named as...
Survival is the utmost priority for any state in the world and in the present multipolar world after globalisation, where threats come in different forms and are not just limited on land, air and water. It could be economic and technologica...
The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the central theatre of contemporary geopolitics, linking the Indian and Pacific Oceans and encompassing some of the world’s most economically dynamic and strategically significant states. This article examine...
China's Belt and Road Initiative(BRI/OBOR) was rolled out under Xi Jinping in establishing the country's "soft power' abroad. With more than 130 countries and international organizations signing cooperation agreements with China, the countr...
In 2012, Thailand proposed an initiative for sustainable development of the Lancang-Mekong Sub-region. This initiative was welcomed by China. In 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the 17th China-ASEAN Summit proposed the establishment of t...
India’s relationship with Southeast Asia spans centuries. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's interest in this region is even more evident through the adjustment of the Look East Policy into the Act East Policy. This adjustment aims...
Vietnam after its chairmanship fo ASEAN has also assumed the role of non-permanent member of UNSC in 2020. The elevation from a regional leader to a global stakeholder has provided better understanding of regional dynamics and global respon...
Vietnam held its 13th National Party Congress from January 26th, 2021 but is expected to conclude early due to the detection of few COVID-19 cases. Party members hailing from across Vietnam and also Vietnamese diplomats attended the meeting...
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...
