Malabar 2021: Can the China Factor Bind It Together?
The second phase of the Malabar naval exercises involving India, Australia, Japan and the United States was recently held in the Bay of Bengal, following the first phase in August this year near Guam....
View ArticleHow to Confront China and Russia: The Continuing Relevance of the Stimson...
How to cope with territorial aggression by regimes equipped with nuclear weapons? Both China and Russia are using military force to expand their domains over their neighbors’ territories and...
View ArticleThe Biden-Kishida Virtual Summit: What Did It Achieve?
The recent virtual summit between US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was the first substantial meeting between the two since Kishida took office in October last year....
View ArticleIndia’s Nursing Needs Multiply with Potentially Devastating Effect
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed flaws in healthcare systems across the world. But in India, the world’s second most populous nation with 1.4 billion people and a meagre 1.35 percent of GDP spent on...
View ArticleSayonara, Abe-San: Japan-India Relations After Abe
The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has left a deep void in the field of India-Japan ties. Abe was a staunch nationalist who drew inspiration from history to conjure up an...
View ArticleJapan’s New Defense Budget: What Lies Ahead?
In late August, the Japanese defense ministry asked for a record 5.59 trillion yen ($40 billion) for the financial year starting April 2023. The outlay could eventually further increase to around 6.5...
View ArticleMusharraf and India: The General Who Kept Changing His Stripes
The recent death of former Pakistani general and President Pervez Musharraf marks the end of an era in India-Pakistan relations. Musharraf had been living in self-imposed exile in Dubai since 2016...
View ArticlePrime Minister Kishida’s Ukraine Visit: Finally, Out-of-the-Box Thinking from...
The sudden visit of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to Ukraine on March 21 has taken the wind out of the sails of many people who had been clamoring for him to pay a visit to the country as a...
View ArticleWhat Did Narendra Modi’s US Visit Achieve?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent state visit to the US has raised the bar for the bilateral relationship. It was the first state visit by Modi, although he had been to the US earlier as...
View ArticleIndia in the Maldives: Down, but Not Out
The results of the recent presidential elections in the Maldives seem to point towards fresh trouble for India’s outreach to the neighboring island country. The elections went into a runoff because no...
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