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A Perspective on the Senkaku Islands Dispute
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The dispute over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands comprising five uninhabited islands and three rocks totalling seven square kilometres in the East China Sea is often understated as a simple sovereignty dispute or a resource conflict. It may, in fact, be ....

September 04, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Southwestern Wall Defense , Uotsuri Island , ADIZ , SDF , PAFMM , UNECAFE , Okinawa Trough , Bilateral Fisheries Agreement , F35 , aircraft carrier
Indo-Pacific in a Churn: Too many Naval Exercises
Dr Vijay Sakhuja Article

The possibility of Australia joining the India-led Malabar naval exercises to be held later this year in the Bay of Bengal1 has generated an intense debate among the Indian strategic community who responded with a mixed bag of ‘exciteme....

July 28, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Malabar naval exercises; Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD); Asian-NATO; RIMPAC; Pacific Vanguard; La Perouse; Marine Security Belt; Aman series; Regional Maritime Security Patrol (RMSP); Russia-Iran-China; ‘free and open Persian Gulf;
US Augments Military Bases, Revitalizes Lilly Pads and Pushes for Visiting Forces Agreements in the Pacific Ocean
Dr Vijay Sakhuja Article

Earlier this month, on 1st July, 350 paratroopers from the US 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) parachuted onto Guam to test their ability to “execute real-world missions” and demonstrate that they could be deployed “anywhere in the U....

July 10, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , South China Sea , Guam , Hawaii , Taiwan Strait , Bashi Channel , Wake Island , Tinian Island , Pagan Island , Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz , Lilly Pads in Pacific Ocean , Visiting Forces Agreement
Countering Coercion in The Indo-Pacific
Vice Admiral Girish Luthra (retd.) Article

Deliberate and pre-meditated intrusions by China, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India, and consequent Indian responses, have raised concerns globally about the potential of escalation. Diplomatic, economic, military, informational, and ....

July 08, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , China , Indian Ocean Region , PLA , LAC , Coercion , Maritime Security Strategy , Two Front war
US’ Priority: Pacific, within the Indo-Pacific
Dr Vijay Sakhuja Article

The ongoing operational maneuvers by the US military in the Pacific Ocean, establishment of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, and a new approach towards Taipei through the Taiwan D....

June 26, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI); National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021;Taiwan Defence Act; US Indo-Pacific Strategy; Guam Homeland Defense System-Guam (HDS-G); DF-21D and DF-26; US’ Indo-Pacific strategy; Quadrilateral Security Dial , Ladakh.
India-China Standoff and Stability in the Indo-Pacific
Vice Admiral Girish Luthra (retd.) Article

Recent violent clashes near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between Indian and Chinese army units, resulting in large number of casualties in the Galwan region, has caused significant alarm in the wider Indo-Pacific region. While the nature of the c....

June 22, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Indo-Pacific , China , Article , Indo-Pacific , South China Sea , PLA Navy , Indian Navy , Galwan , IOR , COC
Perceptions, Policies and Narrative about China over COVID-19 from the Indo-Pacific
Amruta Karambelkar Article

As the initial shock from the COVID-19 pandemic recedes in the past few weeks, there has been a rising criticism of China from nearly all over the world. This piece would survey China’s policies and popular narratives from the Indo-Pacific that hav....

May 27, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , US , China , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Australia , Japan , Vietnam , Southeast Asia , Singapore , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , ASEAN.
India’s Ocean- The story of India’s bid for regional leadership by David Brewster, New York: Routledge, 2014. pp228. ISBN- 978-0-415-52059-1
Amruta Karambelkar

Indian Ocean is of critical importance to India. The Indian peninsula juts out into the Indian Ocean. In fact, this is the only ocean in the world that is named after a country. The 21st century is a maritime century; therefore, the significance of ....

May 19, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Pakistan , Indian Ocean , Book Reviews , David Brewster , Maritime century , Indian perspective
COVID-19 Opens up Pressures and Opportunities for Quad
Aayush Mohanty Commentary

Before the Indian Government initiated a nationwide lockdown from March 25, 2020, the Foreign Secretary of India participated in a telephonic discussion with representatives of some countries of the Indo-Pacific. Issues related to countering the COVI....

May 14, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , China , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , COVID-19
Vietnam: Integral to ASEAN and Reliable for Indo-Pacific
Dr Faisal Ahmed Article

Introduction
Vietnam will chair the 36th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in June this year. The summit which was initially scheduled in April has been shifted to June due to the Covid-19 outbreak. For Vietna....

May 01, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , South China Sea , Vietnam , Code of Conduct , ASEAN Centrality , ASEAN 2020 , Hanoi Plan of Action , Post Covid 19
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