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Japan wants to assist India to improve the investment climate to attract more FDI so that New Delhi can be linked more closely with Japan–ASEAN-based supply chains.
China is luring the region and the world with its ambitions and the US is offering incoherence. This mismatch is at the heart of the present turmoil in the region
As China’s leverage increases, New Delhi has to reimagine its terms of engagement with neighbours
The challenge will be how India and other countries use this opportunity to restore strategic balance in the region.
For decades since 1932, after the Chakri dynasty gave up absolute power, Thailand has lived under the shadow of military coups.
With the traditional liberal order appearing agile, new questions on international security and peacemaking have come to the fore. In the current context, global players are according Afghanistan greater strategic importance. As NATO troops continue to make headway in that region into the safe havens of ISIS, and with US posturing purportedly getting more robust, China’s role in Afghanistan merits scrutiny. Even though China’s involvement, mi
The response to the country’s new defense budget suggests that Beijing continues to be tone deaf to regional anxieties.
But Covid is likely to accelerate technological decoupling with the US
While there certainly can be questions about how other countries have handled this pandemic, China’s culpability and its mendacity is now beyond que
For the biggest maritime parade held in China since 1949, the People's Liberation Army Navy deployed 48 warships, 76 aircraft and 10,000 sailors and marines.
China’s growing economic footprint around the world is being followed by its military footprint — a reality of great power politics.
With China aiming to develop a "world-class" military by 2050 that can fight and win wars across all theatres, Indian conventional and nuclear thinking will also have to evolve
While there is no need to panic, the liberal democracies cannot simply wish away the growing threats emerging from the illiberal behemoth
An indication of a possible power tussle would be found in November when the 19th CPC Congress is scheduled to be held.
Liberal democracies remain vulnerable to Chinese machinations as the country’s capacity to launch influence operations abroad attains new heights
As usual, China intends to be the number one nation in space
New Delhi’s Indian Ocean woes aren’t confined to Sri Lanka. Across the Indian Ocean’s littorals, the Chinese navy has been preparing to establish a stronger security presence. On Pakistan’s Makran coast, the PLAN has deployed regularly, including at Gwadar, also constructed by CMPorts. Earlier this year, the PLA is said to have initiated talks with the Pakistan military for another outpost at Jiwani.
China’s moves in the region, despite the pandemic, are only likely to generate fear and inspire greater cooperation with Washington.
China remains a superpower in the making but its journey has now become profoundly more difficult
Japan is now being pushed to a leadership role in Asia following the election of Donald Trump as US President
When Xi took over as general secretary of Communist Party in 2012, western media portrayed him as a ‘compromise candidate’ with little qualification to run China.
Like-minded democracies in Asia are increasingly drawn together.
Canada’s world-class energy resources and national interests in global energy diplomacy must be articulated coherently and to the fullest
