Indo-Pacific
Round Table Discussion on the Indo-Pacific

Preliminaries
The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) held a Round Table Discussion (RTD) on the Indo-Pacific on 09 September 2019. Since the past few years the term ‘Indo-Pacific’ is widely used in the strategic circles though....

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