
BEYOND CAUTION: REFRAMING INDIA–TAIWAN COOPERATION IN A TRANSFORMING INDO-PACIFIC
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…
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/“INDONESIA’S MARITIME DILEMMA — BETWEEN LEGAL CONSISTENCY AND STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY”
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…

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

BOOK REVIEW: “THE MARITIME FULCRUM OF THE INDO-PACIFIC: INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA RESPOND TO CHINA’S CREEPING EXPANSION IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA”
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…
Credit: Google EarthTHE MERCHANTMARINE IN THE CROSSHAIRS: LATEST TOOL OF STRATEGIC MESSAGING?
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…
