More: Indo-Pacific
India and the Five Eyes. Is the time ripe?
We have witnessed time and again that intelligence deficiencies have extracted exorbitant costs from New Delhi. Be it the 1962 war against China or...
Reviewing the Shangri-La Dialogue 2022: What it means for Regional Security
The 19th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), one of the premier defence and security dialogues related to the Indo-Pacific region, was recently held in Singapore...
Ukraine’s losses are China’s gains
The conflict in Ukraine will have major strategic consequences for Chinese foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific. It will promote the deepening of Russian–Chinese economic...
Aligning values into an interest-based Canadian Indo-Pacific Strategy
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an explicit challenge to the post-WW 2 order. This order has brought peace and stability and created the conditions...
Expanding the India-ASEAN Cyber Frontiers
The recently concluded India-ASEAN Foreign Minister’s Dialogue (also known as the ‘Delhi Dialogue’) celebrated thirty years of the India-ASEAN relationship. The current year, designated...
A Little Britain’s Reach Out To The Big Indo-Pacific
As the ideological schism in today’s world deepens, the leaders of the liberal camp are ramping up their activities in the regions they have...
What makes India’s participation in the Quad intrinsically unique?
In this essay, I try to shed light on the geopolitical imperatives that make India’s involvement in the Quad intrinsically unique and distinct from...
ASEAN as the Key Ground of Competition in U.S.-China’s Indo-Pacific Strategies
With U.S. President Joe Biden's visit to Asia scheduled for later this month, Japan's ambassador to the U.S., Koji Tomita, stated on May 9...
Visit of Vietnam’s PM Chinh to US for US-ASEAN Summit
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh left Hanoi (May 11) to visit US and hold meetings with US President Joe Biden. The meeting between...
BRI and the ‘Indo-Pacific’ Strategy: Geopolitical vs. Geostrategic
The new US Indo-Pacific Strategy document released in February has two interesting components, one overt and one covert. The document overtly declares the US...