Written by Claude Rakisits
Most of the world’s attention has been focussed on China’s aggressive military behaviour and impressive infrastructure build-up in the South China Sea in the last few years.
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Written by Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
As long as China continues with its aggressive maneuvering in India’s backyard, New Delhi will be compelled to engage in diplomatic efforts in pursuit of more strategic options and to reduce its relative material vulnerabilities.
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Written by Krzysztof Iwanek
India is too independent to be an outspoken ally of any global power but too weak to be a global power by itself. New Delhi is keen to not be seen as a U.S. ally but cannot risk becoming China’s foe.
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Written by Manali Kumar
Narendra Modi and the BJP’s squandering of India’s soft power founded on the vision of the country as a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and multi-religious society will diminish New Delhi’s claims of being a moral actor.
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Written by Darshana M. Baruah
Islands in the Indian Ocean are located near key transit routes providing access and influence over important chokepoints and waterways, and thus, their key geographies have the potential to impact geopolitical competition.
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Written by Joe Varner
Russia’s return as a player in the Indo-Pacific is significant and when coupled with Chinese military and political power represents a serious threat to United States of America and its Pacific allies.
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Written by Nitasha Kaul and Sangay Khandu.
While the official discourse emanating from both countries has predictably been about a steadfast and unwavering relationship with hardly any challenges, in reality, several aspects of this relationship have undergone a dramatic transformation in the last two decades.
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Written by Joe Varner
North Korea as a nuclear power is here to stay because Kim Jong-un and the Kim family regime depend on it for ultimate survival. Kim knows the history of dictators giving up their weapons is an unhappy one.
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Written by Melissa Conley Tyler and Pravin Silva
Australia’s future security and prosperity will depend on its ability to finesse the right balance between its largest trading power and closest military ally .
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Written by Muhamad Arif.
An alienated China is not in Jokowi’s interest. Provoking China and prompting it to act more aggressively would escalate tension in the region and be detrimental to Jokowi’s domestic economic development agenda.
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Written by Phillip Orchard
Southeast Asian states are finding it ever-harder to trust that the US will show up if and when push comes to shove with China. And this dynamic might just make it even harder for the U.S. to do so.
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Written by Sari Arho Havrén
When we look back to 2020, the Covid-19 outbreak may well be one of the triggers that led into the break-up of the European Union and China becoming the biggest economy in the world.
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Written by I-wei Jennifer Chang and Haiyun Ma
For the Chinese government, the Taliban is a tolerable political player that can assist Chinese authorities in quelling its main security concerns arising from alleged Uyghur militants in Afghanistan.
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Written by Ian Inkster
East Asian nations share a large number of socio-cultural features, ranging from written language, life aspirations and the high importance both economically and socially of small businesses, to what I have referred to, as an underbelly of Confucian values.
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Written by Tim Foxley
If Afghanistan lapses into a multi-factional civil war, most of the flawed but real international progress made – women’s rights, human rights, children in schools, election processes - could unravel in a handful of years.
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Written by Rajesh Rajagopalan
India’s strategy is a mixed one, one of balancing China while also attempting to reassure it. But as I point out in a recent essay in International Affairs, I am skeptical that this mixed strategy can work.
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Written by Paul Gardner
China’s political leaders will be hoping that when concerns about the coronavirus eventually start to recede, memories about the state’s failings early on in the outbreak will also fade.
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