China has been very assertively becoming an aggressive and expansionist power and has been building its cult of string of pearls and artificial islands, threatening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of most countries in the world. S...
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...
The relations between China and Pakistan have been long-standing, strong and are based on mutual cooperation. China has emerged as an all-weather friend of Pakistan. The common ambitions, perceptions and policies have helped the two countri...
In the past decade, Bangladesh has emerged as an important player in China's political expansion strategy. Military cooperation between the two states in form of arms supply and construction of military infrastructure has increased in past ...
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...
On September 10, Maldives and the United States of America signed the 'Framework for the U.S. Department of Defence-Maldives Ministry of Defence: Defence and Security Relationship" in Philadelphia, USA. Signed by Minister of Defence, Mariya...
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 ...
On July 2020, the Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. The Act was approved by both the Philippines’ Senate and House of Representatives in February and June 2020 respectively. This new legislation w...
Indo-Pacific started as a vision by Japan, but soon after it, became a strategy when the United States adopted it. India took became a part of it and all these countries became the Quad. With the coming of Viet Nam, South Korea and New Zeal...
Papua New Guinea is an island country in the South-Western Pacific Ocean and is a part of Oceania. The country has around 600 islands, with its capital located at Port Moresby. It is just 100 miles away from the Australian mainland, but the...
