Managing the Geopolitical Competition between China and India: Sri Lanka’s Strategic Balancing Act
The competition between India and China has intensified with the changes in the strategic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region. Both countries with their growing economies, trade, military capabilities and global interdependence seek to control the Indian Ocean. China is investing heavily in strategic projects in IOR nations under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and […]
The strategic landscape of the Asia-Pacific is now shaped by the competition between China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the United States’ Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy. The Sino-U.S. strategic competition has greatly impacted the strategic outlook and foreign policies of middle powers in the region. This paper argues that the Asia-Pacific middle powers […]
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) seeks to develop Pakistan’s industrial capacity and contribute to its emergence as a trading hub between China and the Middle East in the long run. The deep-sea seaport of Gwadar in the Arabian Sea will play an instrumental role in this respect due to its proximity with the strategic sea-lanes […]
On 10 April 2024, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House, marking the first state visit by a Japanese Prime Minister since 2015.1 The joint statement issued following their summit meeting highlighted the dawn of a “new era of strategic cooperation” between the U.S. and Japan.2 The statement […]
On April 16, 2024 the Foreign Ministry of Japan released its Diplomatic Bluebook for the year 2024. The book gives a roundup of Japan’s diplomatic profile in the past year and it also puts forth the Japanese perspective regarding the international developments and its own policy direction. The Bluebook describes the international situation as being […]
The Ukraine Peace Summit took place on 15-16 June 2024 in the picturesque setting of the Burgenstock resort in Stansstad, Switzerland.
In March 2024, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released another significant ‘Fact Sheet’ highlighting a comparative analysis of trends in international arms transfer from 2014-18 to 2019-23.1 The fact sheet reveals highly alarming trends in arms exports and imports.
On April 02, President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping held a telephone conversation to discuss China-U.S. relations. The call was the first high-level interaction between both presidents since the Woodside Summit in San Francisco in November 2023, and the first by phone since 2022
In the aftermath of the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its support to Israel in the form of a $105 billion national security package that included military and humanitarian assistance for Israel and Ukraine. Out of $105 billion, $14.3 billion — as supplementary funding — was meant to provide security […]
In a new report unveiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), it was revealed that records for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic Sea ice cover, and glacier retreat have not only been surpassed but often shattered. The WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 report paints a […]