Malabar 2020 — 9DASHLINE

Our top ten articles for 2020

As this year draws to a close we recap events through ten of our most-read articles. As an entirely independent platform, we remain committed to connecting Europe and the Indo-Pacific while also seeking to showcase the next generation of leading thinkers. Thank you to all our contributors and we look forward to offering yet more high-quality analysis next year.

Pacific9DLDecember 31, 2020Indo-Pacific, Australia, United States, China, Covid-19, Japan, MALABAR, Malabar 2020

Malabar 2020: The return of the Quad

Written by Blake Herzinger

Malabar 2020 may be trumpeted as a triumph of the Quad, but defining it as a ‘Quad exercise’ is unnecessarily narrow, and would likely preclude participation from other countries in the future, should the organisers wish to include them.

Pacific9DLDecember 23, 2020Indo-Pacific, Australia, United States, China, Covid-19, Japan, MALABAR, Malabar 2020

Malabar 2020: Accelerating the pace of Quad cooperation?

Written by Pratnashree Basu

Understood from this perspective, the participation of Australia in this year’s Malabar exercise along with the three other participants elevates the geostrategic significance of the exercise and marks an additional sphere of engagement in the already many-tiered network of alliances that the Indo-Pacific has given rise to.