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...
Maritime Doman Awareness (MDA) is a tool for ensuring maritime security by developing a full picture of all activities and a practical understanding of the oceanic environment to safeguard the security and sovereignty of nations.
The history of Indian civilization has been tightly connected to the high seas around its territory. However, many scholars have repeatedly argued that India has a continental bias in its security policy. This led to a neglect of the mariti...
The developments in South China Sea have been a matter of concern for all the littoral countries in its periphery as well as the dialogue partners. This year has been very eventful in the context of tensions between US and China in th...
With the global attention shifting towards the East from the West boasting on the Indo-Pacific by altering the Euro-Atlantic worldview, India and China have become ocean-oriented and increasingly gathering resources to outcompete others to ...
China’s increasing military build-up in South China Sea islands under its control has become a matter of global concern. The militaristic approach and the assertive posture adopted by China has few intrinsic objectives. China has been condu...
Rory Medcalf, in his essay “What’s in a name” noted that “Indo-Pacific minilateralism is the wave of the future that many countries will try to surf.”[1] The recent tide of trilateral and quadrilateral groups hints at the significance of th...
Chinese foreign policy has become clearer in recent times. Aggressive interventionist policies towards Taiwan, the South China Sea and Indian territorial and maritime region are clear indications of how Beijing wants to pan out its military...
Following the escalating tensions between India and China at Eastern Ladakh region, and not so congenial relations between China and Australia, it has been felt that there is a need for greater cooperation between India, Japan and Australia...
“International politics is a nasty and dangerous business, and no amount of goodwill can ameliorate the intense security competition that sets in when an aspiring hegemon appears in Eurasia.” John J. Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer wrote ‘China’s ...
The world at present faces several issues whether it’s the Coronavirus Pandemic, uncertainties over the existing world order have been raised accompanied with inter-state competitions in the political, economic and military realm. Recently,...
The Fish hook strategy was a US propelled strategy highlighted by Taiwan military intelligence official Liao Wen-chung. He described it as a “Fish Hook Undersea Defence Line”. The purpose of this defence line was the US developing unde...
