INDIA-UNITED STATES: India’s Growing Strategic Convergence With USA
The Trump administration is looking to increase arms sales to India in the wake of deadly border clashes between India and China. The US...
INDIA-RUSSIA: Military Ties Remain Strong
Russia has backed India in the face-off with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. India’s tough stance against China’s...
INDIA-JAPAN: A Dependable Partnership
India and Japan have a long linkage of friendship based on goodwill and trust. A major reason for this trust and goodwill is no...
DEFENCE COOPERATION: India-Australia Defence Ties
Australia is likely to be invited to attend Exercise Malabar, which is planned at the end of 2020. It will be the first time...
INDO-PACIFIC: India, ASEAN and the South China Sea
The South China Sea (SCS) is a contested territory. This international territorial dispute involves mainly six claimants: Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and...
INDO-PACIFIC: Quadrilateral Security Dialogue Advances
The Quadrilateral traces its origins to the great Asian tsunami of December 26, 2004. Indian ships, aircraft and helicopters were despatched within hours to...
GEOPOLITICS: Sino-Iranian Strategic Partnership is a Setback to India
According to the New York Times (Defying U.S., China and Iran Near Trade and Military Partnership, 11 July 2020), Iran and China have quietly...
HONG KONG: China Adopts Decision on National Security Law
A Blow to Hong Kong’s Autonomy
China's National People's Congress (NPC), on 28 May, adopted a decision to make a national security law for Hong...
US, Indian Naval Exercise A Clear Signal to China
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, consisting of flagship USS Nimitz (CVN 68), Princeton, and Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyers USS Sterett (DDG 104) and...
U.S.–CHINA: U.S.’s Belligerent Posturing Against China
America’s New China Policy
The US-China rivalry has shifted into new and unpredictable areas ever since the US administration claimed China intentionally covered up the...















