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ASEAN Adopts Outlook for Indo-Pacific 2019: Balances Aspirations and Affirms Indonesia’s Leadership

ASEAN took a landmark decision to adopt the ASEAN Outlook on Indo-Pacific on June 22, 2019 after more than a year of deliberations. Located centrally, in one of the most dynamic regions of the world today, ASEAN sees Southeast Asia as the conduit and....

July 01, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , ASEAN manoeuvres , complexities of Indo-Pacific , managing the Indo-Pacific

Xi’s visit to North Korea: what did it achieve?

Dr Gunjan Singh Commentary

The visit by Xi Jinping to North Korea on June 20-21, 2019 is significant because a Chinese President reached Pyongyang after 14 years. This year also marks the 70^th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the neighbours. Xi made the t....

June 27, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Xi Jinping’s North Korea visit , Peace and development on Korea , Korea’s missile and nuclear agenda

Seminar on ‘Shipping, Ship-ownership and Shipbuilding in India: Policies, Praxis and Prospects’

A seminar was organised on the above topic on May 16, 2019 at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. It was a sequel to ongoing discussions on the need for greater impetus on the shipping, ship-ownership and shipbuilding sector of India....

June 13, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Seminars , shipping , Shipbuilding in India , Sea , Ports , India’s economy

Shangri-La Dialogue-2019 - Implications for India’s Security Policy

Commodore Somen Banerjee Commentary

Recalling Queen Victoria’s diamond Jubilee in 1897, Arnold Toynbee had remarked, “Here we are at the top of the world. We have arrived at this peak to stay forever. There is off course, this thing called history”. At the Shangri-La Dialo....

June 05, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Shangri-La Dialogue-2019 , China’s Indo-Pacific intent , US policy in Indo-Pacific

Vietnam Continues to be Wary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

The second BRI Forum of China held in April 2019 has received as much attention, if not more, as the first one held in May 2017. The fundamental objectives of the BRI remain the same, i.e., shoring up of domestic economy by exporting surplus industr....

May 29, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Vietnam and BRI , Second BRI Forum , caution over BRI

ASEAN needs India to preserve its centrality in a multi-polar Indo-Pacific

Commodore Somen Banerjee Commentary

A workshop of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Regional Forum (ARF) was concluded in Dili, Timor-Leste on April 26, 2019. A range of issues would have been on the table including the Rohingya refugee crisis, radicalisation and the S....

May 01, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , ASEAN Centrality , Indo-Pacific power-play , China’s assertiveness in East Asia

Quad Initiatives against Terrorism

Aayush Mohanty Article

The idea of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), floated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2007, was for Japan to work together with the US, India and Australia to enhance the values of democracy. While addressing the Indian parliament in 2....

March 29, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Quad in Indo-Pacific , Quad on terrorism

दक्षिण चीन सागर में 2019 में होने वाले घटनाक्रम का अनुमान

Amb Yogendra Kumar Commentary

यदि 2019 की बात करें तो दक्षिण चीन सागर सुलगते हुए पलीते की तरह है, जो बिना चेतावनी के किसी भी समय फट ....

February 06, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , चीनी सैन्यीकरण , दक्षिण चीन सागर

ब्लू बनाम ग्रीनः ताइवान में मध्यावधि चुनाव का विश्लेषण

Dr Teshu Singh Article

बीते वर्ष 24 नवंबर को ताइवान में स्थानीय निकाय और मध्यावधि चुनाव संपन्न हुए। इन चुनावों में डेमो....

January 30, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Taiwan electionsChina-Taiwan relations

Forecast on Developments in the South China Sea in 2019

Amb Yogendra Kumar Commentary

Looking into 2019, the South China Sea is like a lit fuse which can lead to conflagration without warning. The rhetoric between China and the US is becoming so incandescent that avoidance of a violent naval clash has become a main subject of discussi....

January 05, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , South China Sea , Indo-Pacific confrontation