Written by Jay Maniyar
China-Japan relations are caught between the spread of COVID-19 and rising tensions in the East China Sea on the one hand, but growing trade and economic relations on the other. It remains to be seen whether the relationship between these two rivals worsens or improves.
Read MoreWritten by Aayush Mohanty
Xi Jinping’s demand for total loyalty from the government’s bureaucracy has overruled decades of collective leadership, which previously afforded some flexibility toward policies and encouraged pragmatism over rigidity.
Read MoreWritten by Vengalil Venugopal
The US Navy’s shipbuilding plan has capped the fleet size at 355 ships by 2034. China’s own naval expansion however has progressed at pace. By 2030, Beijing could field a fleet of 450 surface ships and 110 submarines, localised entirely in the Indo-Pacific.
Read MoreWritten by Sriparna Pathak
In 1962, China and India engaged in a brief but bloody border war. Faced with the failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong sought to reassert his authority by defeating an outward foe: India. Faced with COVID-19, economic uncertainty and political crisis, has Xi Jinping taken the same calculation in 2020?
Read MoreWritten by Saurav Sarkar
In March this year AQIS changed the name of its Urdu language magazine Nawa-e-Afghan Jihad to Nawa-e-Ghazwa-e-Hind (NGH). This change may have been required in order to give the impression that India would be the priority theatre for AQIS after its apparently successful jihad against U.S. forces in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban.
Read MoreWritten by Mateusz Chatys
Chinese fishing boats and coast guard ships are increasingly trespassing into Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) near the Natuna islands. Indonesia however has a wide range of tools it is willing to use if Beijing continues its provocative actions.
Read MoreWritten by Simran Walia
Given the postponement of Xi’s visit to Japan this year due to COVID-19 and recent events in India, Japanese policymakers must now be wondering how and when China will target the Senkaku Islands.
Read MoreWritten by Jagannath Panda
For India, it is becoming increasingly clear that China’s ‘peaceful’ rise is coming to an end. While militarily both nations aim for a peaceful accord, the diplomatic ties between them should and must be changed.
Read MoreWritten by Gulraiz Iqbal
In late March 2019, India announced to the world the shoot down its own satellite, in a move to test its anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) capabilities in an operation dubbed ‘’Mission Shakti’’. Marking the test, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that New Delhi had joined the elite club of space faring nations.
Read MoreWritten by James Borton
There are about 400 underseas cables, many owned by Amazon, Facebook and Google, that propel data down the threads at nearly the speed of light and this trove of data, includes emails, texts and more than $15 trillion of the world’s financial transactions.
Read MoreWritten by Tuneer Mukherjee
China has increased its footprint in the Indian Ocean Region by weaving together a patronage network in the Indian Ocean littoral countries. China has undertaken massive port projects in countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, under its 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
Read MoreWritten by Gokul Sahni
If modern India continues to base its territorial claims from the work of British civil servants like Henry McMahon and William Johnson, it would make sense to understand more on how the sovereign imperial power of the time viewed India’s strategic interests.
Read MoreWritten by Ian Hall
There can be little doubt that what just happened in the Galwan River Valley constitutes the biggest test yet faced by Narendra Modi’s government. Modi’s options are, however, constrained.
Read MoreWritten by Angana Guha Roy
In recent weeks South Korea has spoken about reopening a complaint filed with the WTO over Japan’s attempts to curb high end technology exports to its companies. This is just the latest turn in a continuation of Seoul’s bilateral trade dispute with Japan which started last year.
Read MoreWritten by Bich T Tran
Vietnam’s Three-No’s principle makes alliances unlikely, a recent white paper states however that: “Vietnam will consider developing appropriate defense and military relations with other countries, regardless of political regimes and levels of development.”
Read MoreWritten by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy
Beijing’s approach is taking the international community further away, rather than closer to a strategy focused on human rights and accountability. As Beijing and Washington remain locked in rivalry, Beijing and Pyongyang share similar goals: the weakening of the US-South Korea alliance.
Read MoreWritten by Rushali Saha
A recent statement by India’s Army Chief accused Kathmandu of acting at the behest of others, a fairly direct reference to China. Remarks not taken well by Nepalese civil society. As Nepal struggles to balance India and China, another actor also seeks greater influence in the Himalayas: the United States.
Read MoreWritten 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.
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