The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD), composed of India, the United States, Japan, and Australia, has emerged as a key forum in the Indo-Pacific’s evolving strategic architecture. Initially a loose coalition responding to humanitarian...
Ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, European states have faced a growing wave of hybrid threats. These threats are not always visible or dramatic, but they are persistent and deeply disruptive. In this artic...
Undersea cables are the new frontier of competition between China and the United States and the fight is towards achieving dominance. Superiority, if achieved by either in this realm could lead to military and economic dominance for decades...
China has been steadily increasing its defence budget for years, aiming to modernise its armed forces and project power regionally. This concerns some countries, particularly those with overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea....
China’s construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra River (Yarlung Zangbo) under its 14th Five-Year Plan presents significant geopolitical and security challenges for India. This project, located in a seismically a...
New Delhi held a rare strategic meeting (March 2) with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) focusing on regional security challenges in a step that might have global consequences. According to reports, the dialogue occurred in earl...
In the past decade, China has lost growth in double-digits. In comparison to previous months, the GDP went down from April to June although it barely topped in the same quarter too. In this regard, economists are of the view that factories ...
Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida visited India on a two-day visit from 19 March to 20 March 2022 for the 14th India-Japan Annual Summit. The two countries over the years have developed themselves in multi-faceted domains of cooperation...
Bad COVID management policies hindering tourism recovery in Sri Lanka: The tourism industry in the country brings in around $3 billion to $5 billion in foreign exchange annually. However, the country’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 outbreak...
Vietnam’s economic growth declined significantly in 2020 from 7% to 2.91% due to the Covid-19 outbreak. This is better than most other countries where the growth rate was negative. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the demand front has...
Regional economic corridors are becoming more prevalent in the world economy. Their increasing importance can stimulate economic growth and inclusive development. The Indo-Pacific Economic Corridor is a project that aims to promote regional...
There is a saying about technology. "Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination." One of the best-suited examples would be the cyber domain. The headway this domain has made is parallel to none. China is one of the...
