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“COMFORT” WOMEN AND “UNCOMFORTABLE” EAST ASIAN GEOPOLITICS

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, publicly criticized the 2015 Comfort Women Agreement reached between South Korea and Japan, and appointed a task force to review the Agreement— which in turn concluded that the Agreement was flawed.[1]This…
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CHINA’S GROWING INFLUENCE IN AFRICA: LESSONS FOR INDIA

  On December 04, 2015, while delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Johannesburg Summit of the Sixth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted, “In conducting China’s relations with…

INDIA AND INDONESIA: CONVERGING MARITIME INTERESTS IN THE CONFLUENCE OF THE OCEANS

As the ‘rise’ of Asia gathers momentum, the geopolitical interplay amongst the regional powers is likely to become more vigorous. India and Indonesia are amongst these powers whose interface is likely to be guided by strong convergent interests…
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MARITIME DIMENSION OF HYBRID WARFARE – THE INDIAN CONTEXT

(This is a revised extract of chapter titled “India’s Strategic Landscape, Hybrid Threats and Likely Operational Scenarios” jointly authored by Gurmeet Kanwal, Syed Ata Hasnain, Gurpreet S Khurana and Manmohan Bahadur, in Satish Kumar…
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MISSING ARGENTINE SUBMARINE ‘SAN JUAN’: ISSUES AND INFERENCES

  While the President of Argentina has assured his people that the search for the missing Argentine submarine San Juan (S 42) will continue, there is not much good news for the families of the crew of the submarine and for Argentine…

REVIVAL OF QUADRILATERAL: A SHIFT IN INDIA’S POLICY TOWARDS CHINA?

The prospect of a revival of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD), involving the US, India, Japan and Australia, has recently set the international media abuzz. The first meeting of the Dialogue was held in Manila on the sidelines of the…
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INDIAN PRESIDENT’S VISIT TO DJIBOUTI: FULFILLING A STRATEGIC NECESSITY

On the third and fourth of October 2017, the 14th President of India, H.E Ram Nath Kovind undertook his first official visit abroad. It was significant that this was to Djibouti, an Indian Ocean littoral country of immense geo-strategic importance.[1]…
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DUTERTE’S FOREIGN POLICY SHIFT: BANDWAGONING WITH CHINA?

In June 2016 led to a remarkable shift in the foreign policy of the archipelagic state. Unlike the previous administration of Benigno Aquino III, which was somewhat confrontational with China on several fronts, including dragging Beijing to…

ROHINGYA CRISIS: A POTENTIAL MARITIME QUAGMIRE FOR INDIA

  Continued ethnic strife and the State’s overtly discriminatory policies in the Rakhine province of Myanmar have resulted in hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas fleeing their homes. As the exodus began in earnest in the late 1970s,…

‘BEYOND HARDWARE AND TECHNOLOGY’: THE INTANGIBLES OF CHINA’S NAVAL POWER (PART 3)

  This is part three of a three-part series on China's naval power  (PART 3: TACTICAL LEVEL) As introduced in the Part 1, so far, most analysis of China’s naval power worldwide has focused on the PLA Navy’s existing and projected…

MELAKA GATEWAY PORT: AN ANALYSIS

Introduction This issue brief aims at analysing China’s geo-economics and geostrategic intentions as manifested in its generous assistance to Malaysia for development of the Melaka port project. The issue brief also intends to study the…

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