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 year of 2022 marked India and Japan’s 50 years of friendship and cooperation in a variety of domains. Initially, the relations between India and Japan consisted of cultural and economic relations and off late, the two countries are focu...
On December 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a three-day visit after clinching a third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission, and effecti...
Japan launched its most significant military buildup since World War II earlier this month, with a $320 billion plan to acquire missiles capable of countering its regional threats and prepare it for any kind of long-term battle. The regiona...
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...
India and the United States of America (USA) due to their shared value interests and the convergence of policies have led to their bilateral engagement being termed a “global strategic partnership”. In the past few years, India’s emphasis o...
Shinzo Abe, the recently assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister, is remembered for his astute leadership and had many impeccable achievements to his legacy. One among those was to kickstart the Japanese military modernization and upgra...
The IPEF was launched on May 23, 2022 jointly by US and other countries of Indo Pacific region. It was initially composed of 14 founding member nations. Fiji was the first South Pacific Island nation to join the group. The invitation to oth...
Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are dominating the battlefields in combat in the twenty-first century. The current confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, which involved the deployment of drones, has caused both nations to recon...
In September 2021, China applied to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement among 11 countries. It was the country's first attempt to join a major trade pact since the US exited the project four years earlier. Although Ch...
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...
