In February 2023, France, India, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced an ambitious new trilateral partnership aimed at collaborating on several areas, such as defence, technology, and energy. The foreign ministers of the three count...
New Delhi held a rare strategic meeting (March 2) with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) focusing on regional security challenges in a step that might have global consequences. According to reports, the dialogue occurred in earl...
The External Affairs Minister visited the Maldives and Sri Lanka from 18 to 20 January to improve India's ties with its critical maritime neighbours in the Indian Ocean Region. Significantly, the Maldives and Sri Lanka have a special positi...
The year of 2022 marked India and Japan’s 50 years of friendship and cooperation in a variety of domains. Initially, the relations between India and Japan consisted of cultural and economic relations and off late, the two countries are focu...
Both Japan and Australia are important to the development of the Indo-Pacific region. They share a common commitment to upholding the rule of law, democracy, and human rights. On October 22, the Prime Ministers of Japan and Australia signed...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
India and the United States of America (USA) due to their shared value interests and the convergence of policies have led to their bilateral engagement being termed a “global strategic partnership”. In the past few years, India’s emphasis o...
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which carries gas from Russia to Europe, has been shut down after multiple leaks were discovered. This pipeline carries natural gas from Russia to the European Union. It supplies about 35% of the gas that the EU ...
One of the world’s most geographically separated nations, the Maldives, is becoming more important and playing an essential role in the current geopolitical developments. The Indian Ocean’s centrally placed island republic, which is made up...
The United States and a large portion of the rest of the world have regarded Asia too crudely for centuries—as a theatre of strategic rivalry. Allies and partners of the United States from all over the world have an interest in how the Indo...
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.
During a three-day visit to Vietnam, India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh and his counterpart in the Vietnamese government General Phan Van Giang signed the Joint Vision Statement on India-Vietnam Defence Partnership towards 2030. This...
