COMMENTARIES
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East Asia Compass
US, China, and a Two-Pronged Japanese Foreign Policy
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 30 Apr, 2021 · #5764 · Commentary · Column
Japan continues to be the most important US
ally in the Indo-Pacific. This is despite the dilution of its ‘Indo-Pacific
strategy’ into the ‘Indo-Pacific vision’ over the past few years, and close cooperation
with China in addressing the...
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COVID-19 & Southeast Asia
Terrorism in the Philippines in 2020
Siddharth Anil Nair · 28 Apr, 2021 · #5763 · Commentary
By the first
quarter of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had created conditions for greater population
control and surveillance, allowing Southeast Asian states seeking to dismantle
terror groups (TG) the opportunity to do so. While the pandemic had...
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ASEAN, China, and a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea
Vishal Bhadri · 27 Apr, 2021 · #5762 · Commentary
The Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) and China aim to draft the 2021 Code of Conduct (CoC) for the
South China Sea (SCS) in the midst of several long-running and escalating
disputes. The CoC is expected to be a regional framework ...
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Red Affairs
Chhattisgarh Massacre: Responding to Battlefield Setbacks
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 13 Apr, 2021 · #5761 · Commentary · Column
Within a span of less than two weeks, 28
security force (SF) personnel were killed in Chhattisgarh by left-wing
extremists from the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
The first attack, on 23 March 2021, involving
improvised...
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In Context: Aarogya Setu, Data Security, and the Right to Privacy
Vrinda Batra · 08 Apr, 2021 · #5760 · Commentary
With
over 150 million downloads, India’s Aarogya Setu is the world’s most downloaded
COVID-19 contact tracing app. Within the first month of its launch, it helped
identify approximately 600 COVID-19 hotspots around the country. However, a
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Strategic Space
Early Nuclear Indicators in the US’ Interim National Security Strategic Guidance
Manpreet Sethi · 05 Apr, 2021 · #5759 · Commentary · Column
President
Joe Biden's administration has been quick off the mark to retrieve control on
many domestic and foreign policy fronts: reining in the COVID-19 health
emergency, extending New START, reassuring allies on US commitment to extended
dete...
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East Asia Compass
President Biden and the Making of a New US Policy on North Korea
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 19 Mar, 2021 · #5758 · Commentary · Column
The change of leadership in the
US means that a new strategy on North Korea will be articulated. This article
looks at the developments in this regard: the ways in which the Biden
presidency could differ from the previous administration’s app...
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The Strategist
A Breakdown of Order: Politico-Military Dynamics in the South China Sea
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 10 Mar, 2021 · #5757 · Commentary · Column
Geopolitical trends are not ‘pop-up’ events. They
represent an evolved aggregation of policies that manifest as direction in a
state’s world view. The present politico-military dynamics in the South China
Sea (SCS) are no different. They ...
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Why India Should Prioritise its Inner-Maritime Regions
Siddharth Anil Nair · 16 Feb, 2021 · #5756 · Commentary
India entered 2021 faced with two security
challenges: a standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and China’s growing covert presence in the eastern Indian Ocean (EIO). These challenges should signal to
New Delhi the need to develop its...
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2010-2020: Decadal Trends
Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Ten Years of Rising Dangers
Manpreet Sethi · 09 Feb, 2021 · #5755 · Commentary
Early 2010s: A Mood of Optimism
The decade of the 2010s dawned with
much nuclear hope and optimism, basking in the glow of President Obama’s Prague speech of
April 2009. The NPT RevCon in May 2010 reflected and added to
this sentiment as...
