A $2 billion worth deal between Vietnam and Russia in December 2009 led to six kilo-class submarines being inducted in the Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN). Additionally, the deal includes training programs from the Vietnamese naval crew in Russ...
On 15 April 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Vietnamese PM Phan Minh Chinh and other high-ranking government officials in Vietnam thanking him for the decade-long success of the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership. H...
The Indo-French Strategic Partnership has turned 25 years old in 2023. It was launched on January 26, 1998, on President Chirac's visit to India, and it represents both countries' desire to enhance their separate strategic independence via ...
In February 2023, France, India, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced an ambitious new trilateral partnership aimed at collaborating on several areas, such as defence, technology, and energy. The foreign ministers of the three count...
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...
The External Affairs Minister visited the Maldives and Sri Lanka from 18 to 20 January to improve India's ties with its critical maritime neighbours in the Indian Ocean Region. Significantly, the Maldives and Sri Lanka have a special positi...
The People's Republic of China's economic ties with Africa up to the late 1970s were motivated by ideological imperatives but the political elite in China now sees the continent's economic ties as a way to advance the nation's development o...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
The Indian Air Force celebrated its 90th anniversary outside of Delhi for the first time on October 8, 2022. The celebrations in Chandigarh included a spectacular hour-long air display over Sukhna Lake with as many as 80 aircraft. In additi...
The US and its allies are united in support of Ukraine following Russia's unlawful invasion and continued aggression. The actions have not been forgotten that led to the occupation and aggression of Ukraine's eastern regions and the unlawfu...
There has been an increase in Chinese hostilities toward Taiwan throughout 2020 and 2021. These moves by the Chinese have suggested China’s readiness in invading Taiwan. Amidst such a scenario, Taiwan has made efforts to enhance its defense...
The suspicions of Hambantota port as a site of a potential threat from China were tested when a Chinese survey vessel was supposed to dock at the port. Yuan Wang 5, a research vessel with missile and satellite tracking capabilities, was due...
