As the global demand for smartphones increases, the sources of some rare components in them are becoming exhausted. The question arises, how will phones of the future be built? The smooth running of almost every piece of technology we use i...
The question of ASEAN centrality and its relevance in the international security as well as addressing regional security concerns has been heavily highlighted. ASEAN has accepted that as the Indo-Pacific is a new formation, it needs to be g...
In the oceans, at a depth of as low as 5000 meters, there lie the critical minerals for the usage of modern societies starting from smartphones to electric cars to green energy. Oceans provide an alternative to land-based resources as they ...
India and Philippines have signed the defence cooperation agreement in the year 2006. Since then there have been regular interactions between armed forces personnel, and also liaison visits by the high-ranking officials, and naval ships.&nb...
Recently, the Government of India released the Draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy (DPEPP 2020) with the aim to develop a robust and competitive indigenous defence industry, reduce the dependence on defence imports, and to ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
