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While China currently enjoys enormous power in the Indo-Pacific region, a more assertive India could potentially challenge this status quo.
India’s concerted actions in the Indo-Pacific region will determine its evolution as a key player.
New Delhi is trying to deepen ties to confront common threats but in-group differences pose hurdles
Given the geopolitical and security interests, India cannot afford to ignore or isolate Myanmar.
New Delhi’s strategic recalibration recognises the South China Sea’s critical importance to regional security and the global maritime order
New Delhi finds a prominent place in the strategy’s focus on Washington’s network of allies and partners across the Indo-Pacific.
The success of not signing the RCEP should be measured by the extent to which India is able to align the goals of its foreign trade policy.
India’s silence on developments in the South China Sea is highly unlikely to win it a lasting friendship with China but has the potential to do it some lasting damage.
Overstating Indian activism in the Western Pacific creates a false narrative that is harmful to balanced policymaking.
With Biden and IPEF highlighting economic transparency, it is seen as a way for Washington to create an Indo-Pacific trade bloc without creating a tra
Although South Korea’s Indo-Pacific strategy is being touted as a sincere attempt to play a more dominant role in the region, will it truly make a d
China is consolidating its position in the South China Sea by building artificial islands, so when the time to conclude the actual Code of Conduct com
The United States has stepped up its Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) in the South China Sea as a response to China’s efforts to further en
The United States has stepped up its Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) in the South China Sea as a response to China’s efforts to further en
China’s messaging at the recent Foreign Ministers' meeting suggests that the CJK trilateral does not have an optimistic future
India has to compete with ASEAN and others around the world in increasing its share of global trade. It is promoting its own free trading arrangement
Indonesia maintains its policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, but is now being more responsive to humanitarian issues
Imposition of wider restrictions on technology exports to the other
Japan’s commitment to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific and its assessment of the changing global strategic environment have driven Tokyo to a new path-b
Increasingly, many countries that have traditionally maintained a defensive and pacifist posture, like Japan, are having to reconsider their options.
Growing maritime competition in the Indian ocean has compelled India to engage in maritime diplomacy with the Quad countries to upkeep its commitment
At this juncture of weak economic performance, India has done well not to sign the treaty. It can still join if its main complaint about rapid tariff reduction by 80 to 90 per cent on imports from China is resolved. Also, its concerns about services have to be dealt with, especially regarding the movement of service workers within the region. India could not at this point have opened its huge market to ASEAN and China unconditionally.
By transferring Rs 1.76 lakh crore from the RBI’s surplus funds, the government is determined to meet its fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent of the GDP because doing that seems to be its top priority, rather than spending more on infrastructure, welfare programmes and centrally sponsored development schemes.
New Delhi’s approach to Southeast Asia within the wider Indo-Pacific region is strategically sound but has limits.
No one expects the MoD's current leadership - both political and bureaucratic - to take bold new initiatives towards ASEAN. What surprises southeast Asia is the passive incoherence of the MoD's participation in the various defence forums of ASEAN - neither ready to lead nor willing to respond.
In 2018, significant developments could take place in Southeast Asia, beginning with the Indo-ASEAN commemorative summit on January, followed by New Delhi hosting all the ASEAN leaders collectively as chief guests at the Republic Day function.
Until the country can address its own economic problems, agreements like the RCEP may do more harm than good.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Vietnam later this week will mark the first visit by an Indian prime minister in the last 15 years.
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As Myanmar marks its second year under military rule, the burning question now is would 2023 be any different?
Both India and Indonesia see ASEAN centrality as a prominent feature in their approach to the Indo-Pacific.
Like Abe, Suga believes that the concept of Free and Open Indo-Pacific would foster peace, transparency and inclusiveness in the vast region by recogn
Myanmar hosted US President Barack Obama this week in Nay Pyi Taw for the ASEAN and East Asia Summit. Obama, who visited the former 'paraiah State' for the second time in three years, said that the reforms in Myanmar were real but incomplete.
The tragedy of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has got much attention from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation and a leader of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has sought to promote a constructive engagement between the OIC and Myanmar, which is a member of the ASEAN, on the Rohingya problem.
Australia’s decision to join the AUKUS was one meant to counter Chinese influence, even if it meant upsetting its ally France
The development of Hainan SEZ stands to complicate the geopolitical situation of the South China Sea
