The recent unfolding of events in the region has compelled India to diversify its Act East Policy since its commencement has made north-eastern Asia an important aspect in India's strategic vision for the region. In recent times, India-Mong...
In a realist paradigm on international relations, military and arms development for nations has become essential for security and strategic purposes. The post-Cold-War period has seen rapid development in military sector and incorporat...
Officially formed in 2006, BRICS is the grouping of five emerging economies in the world comprising of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (joined later in 2010). Initially it started as a pressure group which met on the side-lin...
Mining the ocean floor, known as deep-sea, for submerged minerals is a little-known experimental industry, but as the demand to make mobile phones, batteries and solar panels increases, the scope of mining of valuable materials like copper,...
Since the early months of 2020, the international community has been battling a viral outbreak, which has quickly grown into a widespread pandemic. The advent of coronavirus has virtually thrown away the adventure of globalization and has b...
China continues to browbeat its neighbours on all its frontiers and seeks to further bolster its influence and establish its maritime imprint in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) under its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In response India has o...
China has been investing in Asia and Africa so as to further its trade and investment prospects under BRI, and one of the means that it has adopted in Africa is to develop ports and associated infrastructure. This is meant to harness resour...
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 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 ...
China-Myanmar bilateral relations are marked by the civilizational ties which are better known as the "Paukphaw" (fraternal) friendship. The bilateral ties have improved and both the countries look forward towards deepening the cooperation ...
