The exact origin of the Mongol tribe is not clear among the scholars, but one thing is certain, that their ancestors covered a vast area which includes the current Mongolian state, Inner Mongolia (China), and the east of Mongolia (around th...
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 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...
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 ...
In September 15, 2020, Israel has signed Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain which aims at normalising the relations between the three nations. These include security and scientific cooperation, direct flights, commercial activiti...
Separated by the narrow Palk Strait, India and Sri Lanka have a rich history of ethnic, religious cultural and economic collaboration. Furthermore, a shared maritime boundary has also made these neighbors realise their strategic maritime am...
India Russia defence weapons trade has usually been referred as that of supplier and consumer. The last four decades of the arms trade has seen Russia weapons comprising more than 70 per cent of India’s weapons inventory. The adaptation t...
The bilateral relationship between two antipodean neighbours- India and New Zealand, has been a tale of divergent policy stances and changing international milieu which have defined their relationship. Usually, whenever there is an expositi...
In China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) schools have spread across in many provinces. There are a large number of military schools as well as party colleges in China. Xi Jinping, the President of China once said, “Around the world, th...
Centre for Security and Strategic Studies, organized (November 29) an international conference on the topic ‘The South China Sea: Current Challenges and Future Perspective’ at India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi. During the conf...
