Chemi Rigzin

2 December 2025/by admin

BEYOND CAUTION: REFRAMING INDIA–TAIWAN COOPERATION IN A TRANSFORMING INDO-PACIFIC

Author: The connections between India and Taiwan are relatively recent, carefully calibrated, and often astonishingly understated, yet they carry considerable scope for constructive cooperation. Taiwan increasingly demonstrates areas of convergence with India across multiple strategic, economic, and societal domains in the current milieu. This article proposes that a more clearly articulated, interest-based framework for engagement […]

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2 August 2025/by admin

“INDONESIA’S MARITIME DILEMMA — BETWEEN LEGAL CONSISTENCY AND STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY”

Author: Keywords: Indonesia, China, DOC, COC, Code of Conduct, Indo-Pacific, MAHASAGAR. Indonesia’s Geostrategic Centrality in the Indo-Pacific Indonesia occupies a geostrategic position along some of the world’s most vital international shipping lanes (ISLs), through which over 60% of global maritime trade flows annually.[1] Despite not being a formal party to the South China Sea disputes […]

31 July 2025/by admin

THE PLA NAVY’s AIRCRAFT CARRIER, THE FUJIAN: A SYMBOL OF CHINA’S ‘FAR-SEA DOMINANCE’ ASPIRATIONS

Author: Keywords: PLA Navy, Aircraft Carriers, Fujian, Liaoning, Shandong, EMALS, Power Projection, Far Seas, Maritime Security, Indian Ocean, J-15, J-35, Liu Huaqing, Gerard Ford, CATOBAR, Doraleh, Djibouti “The carrier has become an important strategic weapon for China’s maritime ambitions, the development of naval power, and its strategic goals for sea lane security and regional influence”[1] Admiral […]

13 April 2024/by admin

BOOK REVIEW: “THE MARITIME FULCRUM OF THE INDO-PACIFIC: INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA RESPOND TO CHINA’S CREEPING EXPANSION IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA”

Author: Scott Bentley. Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2023. 118 Pages, ISBN 978-1-935352-80 China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), U.S. Naval War College. The southern part of the South China Sea – from Indonesia’s Natuna Islands to the South Luconia Shoals – holds greater significance than the more widely discussed Spratly or Paracel Island groups […]

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23 January 2024/by admin

THE MERCHANTMARINE IN THE CROSSHAIRS: LATEST TOOL OF STRATEGIC MESSAGING?

Author: Abstract The economic wellbeing of a country is contingent upon free, open, and secure seas consistent with the prevalent ‘rules-based order’, through which global trade and energy can flow unhindered. The spillover of the Israel-Hamas conflict into the Red Sea and the adjoining Arabian Sea is threatening these very global trade lifelines. This article explores […]

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