Written by Charles Dunst
The Mekong, thanks to the level of Chinese control, is well on its way to becoming the next South China Sea: a strategic body of water to which China maintains expansive claims and over which it increasingly exercises control.
Read MoreWritten by Vengalil Venugopal
In the last decade China has been developing its A2/AD strategy in the South and East China Seas and in the Taiwan Straits. The ambition is to disrupt the freedom of navigation for the United States and its allies and increase calculus of risk for ships operating in increasingly tense waters.
Read MoreWritten by Shreyas Deshmukh
Over the last two decades, the Pakistani military has launched 10 major operations in the Pashtun Tribal belt to eradicate terrorist organisations and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Read MoreWritten by Saurabh Singh
Sri Lanka and its majors ports, as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, may just be the beginning of a wider programme of Chinese economic and military projects in the years ahead, with a major presence by Beijing becoming the new normal in South Asia.
Read MoreWritten by Ankit K
This year marks 22 years of Pakistan’s overt nuclearisation. Since its first weapon tests in May 1998, Pakistan’s nuclear programme is ever-growing, both in numbers and in variety.
Read MoreWritten by Manali Kumar
India’s economy was already in a downward spiral long before the lockdown. The domestic economy has desperately needed reform and stimulation for years, but the Modi administration’s policies have failed to deliver time and time and again.
Read MoreThis partnership will enable selected articles to feature across both platforms, providing contributors the opportunity to reach an ever greater audience and reflects the passion of both teams to develop analysis and commentary about one of the world’s most vibrant and exciting regions: South Asia.
Read MoreWritten by Shreya Sinha
It is becoming increasingly important for the European Union to weave the path between China and the US. The EU can play a key role in avoiding a new Cold War between Beijing and Washington by refusing to participate in it.
Read MoreWritten by Michael Trinkwalder and Sarah Aver
China was the first major economy to experience a COVID-19 related downturn, Beijing’s success in stamping out the virus now puts the country in a unique position to lead the global economic recovery, via the Belt and Road Initiative.
Read MoreWritten by Vengalil Venugopal
Considering the importance of the Indian Ocean to China’s economic growth, the strategy undertaken by Beijing has been to build duel use infrastructure, capable of hosting both civillian and military vessels at different locations across the Indian Ocean region.
Read MoreShada Islam is Director of Europe and Geopolitics at Friends of Europe, an influential independent think tank based in Brussels. She is also a Solvay Fellow at the Vrije University Brussel (VUB).
Read MoreWritten by Niranjan Marjani
India-Australia relations remain to be realized fully. Despite being two major democracies in the Indo-Pacific, ties to Australia remain asymmetric to India’s engagements with other powers like Japan. COVID-19, combined with China’s assertiveness, represents an opportunity.
Read MoreWritten by Mansheetal Singh and Megha Gupta
China’s actions toward Taiwan and the South China Sea may seem innocuous, but they are being recognised regionally as part of a long term “salami-slicing” strategy employed by Beijing in maritime spaces and beyond.
Read MoreWritten by Rishap Vats
Touted as a “game-changer”, CPEC is one of the earliest manifestations of the BRI, and despite the hurdles, we shouldn’t be neglecting the underlying strategic aspects of this grand project. For Pakistan, it is about transforming its economy and making sure CPEC becomes a harbinger of prosperity.
Read MoreWritten by Ragini Kashyap
The Belt and Road is Beijing’s ‘Project of the Century’, with Morgan Stanley forecasting that China’s expenses along BRI could reach up to 1.3 trillion by 2027. But the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked the worst economic crisis in living memory, and China is facing domestic woes at home.
Read MoreWritten by Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
The situation on the Sino-Indian border is unclear, however if China has indeed built roads and checkposts beyond the Line of Actual Control, India faces a fait accompli. New Delhi faces the choice of either escalating or accepting the new reality on the ground.
Read MoreWritten by Ashutosh Nagda
By not issuing public support to Taiwan’s participation at the WHO, India aims to not provoke China. In return, the hope is that Beijing will be more lenient towards strengthening of Indo-Taiwanese ties in the near future.
Read MoreWritten by Zachary Haver
Beijing’s relentless pattern of assertiveness in the South China Sea is reinforcing existing perceptions of China as an irresponsible power. Beijing could have seized on COVID-19 as a chance to earn goodwill in Southeast Asia. Instead, China adopted the opposite approach.
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