9DASHLINE invites several experts to assess the prospect of security-oriented cooperation between India, Japan, and South Korea. Given potential threats like an increasingly assertive China and a nuclear-armed North Korea, how can New Delhi, Tokyo, and Seoul benefit from increased cooperation?
Read MoreWritten by Gabriele Abbondanza
What we are witnessing is an increasingly crowded region, one in which the many strategies of interested states and organisations do not coordinate to a meaningful extent and therefore frustrate each other.
Read MoreThe reinvigoration of the Quad and the announcement of the AUKUS last year have been a subject of much consternation and debate. While they signal renewed diplomatic energy on Washington’s part, questions remain whether these initiatives will translate to meaningful policy and if they will promote or hinder a coherent Indo-Pacific strategy.
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EU policy on North Korea must balance the commitment to strictly uphold the international rules-based system with the need to adopt flexible diplomacy that will convince Kim Jong-un to move in a positive direction.
Read MoreWritten by Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Along with China and India, South Korea is one of the top three Asian manufacturers of vaccines. Thus, South Korean pharmaceutical firms are going to become critical to the rollout of vaccines across the Indo-Pacific region. The KORUS Global Vaccine Partnership (agreed to by Seoul and Washington) is a clear step in this direction.
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