The G20 Foreign Minister’s Meeting (FMM) held on 7-8 July 2002 was marked by the theme “Building a more peaceful, stable, and prosperous world together”. The meeting was divided into two sessions. The first session held was regarding streng...
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...
Maritime Doman Awareness (MDA) is a tool for ensuring maritime security by developing a full picture of all activities and a practical understanding of the oceanic environment to safeguard the security and sovereignty of nations.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) approved a slew of decisions on topics ranging from fishing subsidies to the production of COVID-19 vaccines. The organization uses its consensus principle to ensure that agreements can be reached even if ...
With the aim to promote peace, security, development and cooperation, BRIC was coined in 2001 by Roopa Purushotaman who was a Research Assistant in Jim O’ Neill’s publication (Building Better Global Economic BRICs) for Goldman Sachs. It was...
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...
The year 2021 has been one of the most dramatic years for cross-strait relations in the 21st century. The Republic of China (Taiwan’s official name) that came into existence after Mao Zedong’s civil war in 1949 has been claimed by Beijing u...
The recent visit to Southeast Asia in December by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, marks the first official visit to the region by a high-ranking diplomat since President Joe Biden took office early this year. His maiden tour bega...
Apart from the Indo-Pacific Quad, a new Quad was formed last month when India's, Israel's, the United Arab Emirates', and the United States' foreign ministers met to form a "International Forum for Economic Cooperation." Following last year...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently held its 38th and 39th summit meetings from 26th October to 28th October 2021. Under the theme "We Care, We Prepare, We Prosper", Brunei Darussalam took over the ASEAN Chairmanship...
The Quad Leaders’ Summit on 24 September 2021 released the ‘Quad Principles on Technology Design, Development, Governance and Use’ and this has paved the way for new technological evolution which would globally change the technologically dy...
Ever since its formation, India has been dealing with alliance adversaries of all kinds from one end or the other. The cold war paved way for the Non-Aligned Movement that sharply defined India’s approach on the global scale, and the wars t...
