Five years on, the BRI narrative has not only focused on hard infrastructures like railways or hydropower but also on areas like digital technology through its digital silk road, on global health governance through its health silk road and fostering people to people relationship and so on. ...
With the launch of the Power of Siberia, China received a stable source of gas supplies, almost independent of the international situation. LNG suppliers to China are completely dependent on shipping. ...
It would be pertinent to point out, that the Middle East is a very complex region and diplomacy is about nuances – there is no black and white. Yet a number of important changes, prompted by external forces, are taking place and will have an impact not just on Middle East itself, but other regions like neighbouring South Asia as well as the geopolitical order. ...
China has moved away from risk-averse satellite projects and has ventured into high risk areas in space technology like human spaceflight and deep space exploration. ...
The pandemic has also played a significant role in reinvigorating the old ties in the region, which suggests that the post-pandemic relations in South East Asia would see a strengthening. ...
Bangladesh and India have a long way to go. Let’s not blame China, the US or anyone else. ...
Biden and his foreign policy could be distracted by issues surrounding Russia and nonproliferation, diluting strategic attention to the structural realities facing the states across the stretch of the Indo-Pacific precipitated by the growth of Chinese power and its minatory assertion. India and the US could be on the road to a more frictional relationship under Biden as opposed to Trump ...
Each country in the region has had its share of acquaintance with asymmetric conflicts in different time-frames and in varying intensities. The South Asian countries may not be able to obliterate asymmetric conflicts but mitigating them is the need of the hour. ...
France’s growing defense cooperation with New Delhi and Taiwan is in opposition to China’s regional interests. These strategic and ideological contradictions hinder the scope of the Sino-French partnership beyond a particular limit. ...
The Quad’s Burgeoning Clout
The Quad has emerged as a dynamic grouping; one that is here to stay. But, it has to tread carefully and conduct continuous risk assessments in order to keep its mandate and purpose intact. ...