July 2020 - National Maritime Foundation

MAKING WAVES: AN E-NEWS BRIEF 20-26 JULY 2020

China's ongoing posture on the LAC with India and aggressive actions in the waters and airspace of the South and East China Seas has evinced a myriad of maritime responses in the IOR, SCS and ECS from India, USA, Japan and Taiwan. Further,…

CLIMATE RISKS TO INDIA’S HOLISTIC MARITIME SECURITY PART 2: INTENSIFYING EXTREME WEATHER

The phenomenon of climate change has several significant and serious socio-economic implications for all nations around the world, largely because most of our activities have historically evolved around a relatively stable climate over nearly…

ON OCEANS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

The ocean is and always has been essential to life on planet Earth. In fact, the ocean is where the very first life forms emerged on the planet. Even today, the world’s oceans support nearly all life on Earth either directly or indirectly. …

MAKING WAVES: AN E-NEWS BRIEF (13-19) JULY 2020)

While the ongoing LAC standoff with China is presently poised at some level of de-escalation, the maritime domain saw the Indian Naval ships exercising with a US Carrier Strike Group, this week, in the Bay of Bengal, off the Andaman and…

China unveils Dongfeng-41 intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles. Image Credits- http://www.ecns.cn/

A PRIMER ON CHINA’S ANTI-SHIP BALLISTIC- AND CRUISE MISSILES

For quite some time now, China has been arming itself — both with new hardware and new maritime operational concepts, typified by what the Americans (and increasingly, others, too) call ‘Anti-Access and Area Denial’ (A2/AD) — to challenge…

RETURNING TO THE INDIAN OCEAN: MARITIME OPPORTUNITIES ARISING FROM TAIWAN’S NEW TIES WITH SOMALILAND

Since Tsai Ing-wen of the pro-Independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acceded to the presidency in Taiwan in 2016, the country has been under severe diplomatic pressure from China that claims the island as a ‘renegade province’.…

MAKING WAVES: AN E-NEWS BRIEF (06-12 JULY 2020)

HYDROGEN FUEL ADOPTION: AN OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROACH PART 3: OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY AS A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE

This is the third tranche (Part 3) of an ongoing advocacy of the need for India to secure its future energy-security by effecting a transition away from fossil fuels. The various parts, taken in aggregate, seek to provide Indian policy-makers…

MAKING WAVES: AN E-NEWS BRIEF (29 JUNE 2020 TO 5 JULY 2020)

BOOK REVIEW- NIHONOMICS: THE ECONOMIC FOREIGN POLICY OF JAPAN (FROM THE 16TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY )

By Preethi Amaresh, Notion Press, 2020, 256 pp., INR 350/- eISBN: 978-1-64760-825-5 “Nihonomics: The Economic Foreign Policy of Japan (From the 16th century to the Present Day)”, is a book written by Preethi Amaresh, wherein she analyses…

Image Credits-Gaby Barathieu

THE OCEAN: LIFE BELOW WATER AND WHY IT MATTERS

Key questions >>> Why does the ocean matter? How is the ocean important for sustainable development? What does the sustainable blue economy offer us? What are the ocean knowledge gaps? How do we need to develop a multidisciplinary…

Haifa Port, Israel

LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CORONA VIRUS OUTBREAK AND THE MARITIME TRADE TO AND FROM ISRAEL

Israel's healthcare system is currently gearing up to cope with the recent Corona virus outbreak, and the main entry point to the country, Ben-Gurion International Airport, is mostly deserted – a clear illustration of the severe impairment…