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...
On September 10, Maldives and the United States of America signed the 'Framework for the U.S. Department of Defence-Maldives Ministry of Defence: Defence and Security Relationship" in Philadelphia, USA. Signed by Minister of Defence, Mariya...
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 ...
Indo-Pacific started as a vision by Japan, but soon after it, became a strategy when the United States adopted it. India took became a part of it and all these countries became the Quad. With the coming of Viet Nam, South Korea and New Zeal...
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...
As tensions escalate across the Indo-Pacific, the United States has seemingly initiated a renewed power plan for the region. Today, a majority of the tensions are concentrated around the South China Sea, where the US, China, Vietnam and the...
In the 21st century, where the world is highly globalised and technological progress has become a vital component of politics all levels, energy needs of all the countries across the globe has increased. Given the growing deterioration of t...
The world at present is reeling under the deadly Coronavirus(COVID-19), which has led to an imbalance in the fiscal markets, inevitably overthrowing the world economics and tarnishing the heath care facilities to an absolute mayhem. China w...
Recent developments like the Joint Communication by the European Commission (EC) criticism of China for spreading disinformation around Covid-19; the European Union’s(EU) concerns over the Chinese imposition of the new national security law...
Following the escalating tensions between India and China at Eastern Ladakh region, and not so congenial relations between China and Australia, it has been felt that there is a need for greater cooperation between India, Japan and Australia...
