Written by Shiyana Gunasekara
If India wants to draw more energy investments beyond the short term, it needs to convince funders that it is the top emerging market for net-zero carbon projects. By leveraging its growing natural gas network and supply, India can become an attractive market for high-value hydrogen projects and meet its potential to grow ten-fold by 2050.
Read MoreWritten by Saurav Sarkar
India has been cautious in talking to the Taliban for multiple reasons, owing to Pakistan’s significant influence over the Taliban, and New Delhi’s commitment to engage with the elected Afghan regime. Some have advocated that India establish communications with the Taliban to keep its options open if or rather when they return to power.
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Read MoreWritten by I-wei Jennifer Chang and Haiyun Ma
Indonesia and Malaysia (also referred to as the Nusantara world in Indonesian-Malay languages) sit at the cross-section of the Indian Ocean and Pacific and have become a meeting ground for the Washington’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific and Beijing’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
Read MoreWritten by Hanh Nguyen
While US-Vietnam relations lack the official name of a strategic partnership, the substance of bilateral cooperation is already at this level. As China continues to press its territorial and strategic ambitions in the South China Sea and Sino-US relations deteriorate, US-Vietnam ties will continue their upward trajectory.
Read MoreWritten by Mateusz Chatys
ASEAN's ineffectiveness in managing the South China Sea dispute was best demonstrated by events immediately after the summit. Following the videoconference, the Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) in Hainan announced naval manoeuvres near the Paracel Islands.
Read MoreWritten by Miriam L. Campanella
Going down the path of financial decoupling is far riskier strategy than imposing tariffs. The Trump Administration risks fragmenting the global financial system. This in turn risks destabilizing the global growth, and heralds the return of a financial Iron Curtain between East and West.
Read MoreWritten by Tridivesh Singh Maini
Important transport projects include a 2,300-kilometre road, which will connect Tehran with Urumqi in China's Xinjiang province. The aim of which will be to link up with the Urumqi-Gwadar highway, itself an important component of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
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Read MoreWritten by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy and Ma Junjie
Germany’s economic might has been decisive in shaping bilateral ties, but also EU-China relations. Trade cooperation has ensured Berlin a position of strength within the EU vis-à-vis China. But cooperation has turned into rivalry, jeopardising Germany’s leading role in high-tech manufacturing.
Read MoreWritten by Vengalil Venugopal
A standoff in the Indian Ocean, between the navies of India and China, has increasingly been predicted by analysts as a likely military scenario. The context most often cited would see it develop from a limited conflict, where border skirmishes escalate into a maritime standoff in the littorals of South Asia.
Read MoreWritten by Drake Long
The new US policy should be viewed as one more part of a coordinated effort across multiple governments to push back against China’s claims with similar diplomatic approaches and language, emphasising UNCLOS and the 2016 PCA award specifically.
Read MoreWritten by Tam-Sang Huynh
The pattern of increasing assertiveness by Chinese vessels in Vietnamese waters and the attendant changes in Sino-Vietnamese relations have produced a deliberate policy change, with Vietnam now tilting diplomatically towards the United States.
Read MoreWritten by Yoichiro Sato
The United States has warned that any land reclamation of Scarborough Reef by China would trigger the US-Philippines mutual defence treaty. Thus, Washington seems to have set, for the first time, an explicit red line in the South China Sea.
Read MoreWritten by Hessy Elliott
China’s accelerating AI innovation deserves the world’s full attention, but it is unhelpful to reduce all the many developments into a simplistic narrative about China as a threat or a villain.
Read MoreWritten by James Borton and Lucio Blanco Pitlo III
Once regarded as the “cathedrals” of the South China Sea, the coral in the Mischief and North Danger reefs, are stressed and bleached. All claimant nations are now being called upon to engage in science-cooperation before it’s too late to save them.
Read MoreWritten by Tereza Novotná
Brussels and Seoul share views on liberal values, global governance and the preservation of the rules-based international order. Since there is no major disagreement between them on these broader questions, what was the key take away from the EU-ROK summit?
Read MoreWritten by Niranjan Marjani
India’s border disputes with Nepal and China have previously been bilateral in nature. But in the current circumstances, these disputes have assumed a much more complex character owing to China's ambitions.
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