Written by Santosh Ghimire
The opening by India of a Himalayan road to the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, through Lipu Lekh has Nepali political elites, civil society, and ordinary people up arms. Despite close cultural ties, India and Nepal are increasingly at odds over the border.
Read MoreWritten by Yatharth Kachiar
In the last 18 years, India has nurtured a constituency of pro-democratic forces across age, gender, and ethnic groups in Afghanistan. It is time for New Delhi to rally behind these groups assertively, as NATO and the U.S. look set to withdraw.
Read MoreWritten by Melissa Conley Tyler and Pravin Silva
China’s return has profound implications for Australia. Australia’s security has long benefitted from its remoteness. This advantage would be threatened by the prospect of an ambitious power maintaining a military presence in the South Pacific.
Read MoreWritten by Gaurav Sen and Rahul Jaybhay
China's claim of the nine-dash line collides with the regional capabilities of multiple claiment states, many of which are growing and developed economies. A limited program of Anti-Access Area Denial (A2/AD) could deter Beijing in the East and South China Seas.
Read MoreWritten by Aneedrisha Hazarika
Since India enunciated the Look East policy, Singapore has become a crucial link to India’s approach to Southeast Asia. Singapore has been India's strongest supporter, advocating for India's entry as a player in the region’s multilateral dynamics.
Read MoreWritten by Dinesh Bhattarai
The resurgence of China and India as major powers brings immense opportunities but new dynamics to Nepal’s doorsteps. Nepal cannot choose between India and China and thus must walk a delicate path between the two most populous nations in the world.
Read MoreWritten by Chetan Rana
Since the early 1950s, Vietnam has recieved the diplomatic support of India, whether during the Vietnam War or the invasion of Cambodia. Now, with closer economic and defence ties, India may soon have to decide whether to support Hanoi in the South China Sea.
Read MoreWritten by Abishur Prakash
Could governments start forcing technology companies to program AI with local beliefs, political attitudes and traditions? If so, for the first time, ethics may define business success, especially in Asia.
Read MoreWritten by Kashoon Leeza
The rise of Hindutva nationalism in India is leading to a reciprocal Muslim nationalism in Pakistan. With both India and Pakistan playing the blame-game, while bolstering their own rhetoric, nationalist discourses are overtaking ties between South Asia’s nuclear armed rivals.
Read MoreWritten by Pooja Bhatt
Littoral nations suspect that even though China states that the purpose of research vessels in the Indian Ocean are purely scientific in nature, that these vessels could be gathering data to enhance Beijing’s maritime domain awareness in the region.
Read MoreWritten by Manali Kumar
South Asian countries must cooperate to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. However, SAARC is not the forum to broker such cooperation. There are few good examples of SAARC cooperation in the 35 years of the organization’s existence.
Read MoreWritten by Arkoprabho Hazra
With increasing security ties with Israel, a historic relationship with the Palestinians, and a history of working with the United Nations and other multilateral forums, India is in a unique position to help mediate the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Read MoreWritten by Grant Wyeth
Since the Second World War, Australia and New Zealand have been the dominant cultural, economic and military powers in the South Pacific. Beijing’s recents moves to push Taiwan out of the region however now sees China operating closer to both countries than ever before.
Read MoreWritten by Alan Tidwell
The southern flank is set to play an important part in the competition for influence between the US and China. Washington needs the safe havens in maritime spaces that both Australia and New Zealand can provide.
Read MoreWritten by Lisa-Maria Hönig
With the rest of the world preoccupied with the fallout from COVID-19, it looks as if China is in the process of revolutionising its infosphere and taking steps towards its strategic goals: ”ending the hegemony of the dollar, and reducing technological dependence on the US for foundational technologies.“
Read MoreWritten by Angana Guha Roy
ASEAN lies in the middle of a battle for influence in Southeast Asia, by both China and Japan. Under Shinzo Abe, Japan has sought closer ties to the trading bloc and in seeking to decouple from China, may double down on trade ties.
Read MoreWritten by Lupita Wijaya
Indonesia has increasingly been drawn into the South China Sea dispute, and although a non-claiment state, media narratives are forming. Perceptions of China within Indonesia are being shaped in the media by recent events in the Natuna Sea.
Read MoreWritten by Pawel Behrendt
The Cold War set the stage and script for later acts we are now seeing in the South China Sea drama. When China took islands from Vietnam it showed that under favourable conditions, the decline of the USSR, that it was ready to use force.
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