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  • The Third 21st Century Panglong Conference: A Review
    Angshuman Choudhury.    ·   02 Aug, 2018    ·    #5499    ·    Commentary    
    The third iteration of Myanmar’s union-level peace forum—the 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC)—concluded on 16 July 2018. The 21CPC, supposed to be held biannually, was hosted in 2018 after a year-long delay, and witnessed five days o ...
  • Maritime Matters
    The Challenges of AI-enabled Underwater Platforms
    Vijay Sakhuja.    ·   01 Aug, 2018    ·    #5497    ·    Commentary    
    The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is likely to acquire a new type of submarine by the early 2020s. According to the South China Morning Post, the Shenyang Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is engaged i ...
  • Maritime Matters
    Digital Connectivity in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands
    Vijay Sakhuja.    ·   17 Jul, 2018    ·    #5495    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian government has awarded a contract for the installation of a 2,300 km-long optical fiber cable (OFC) across the Bay of Bengal between Chennai in the Indian mainland and Port Blair in the Andaman & Nicobar (A&N) islands. Announced in ...
  • 'Advantage Assam': Instrumentalising Development through Tourism
    Riddhi Mahanta.    ·   09 Jul, 2018    ·    #5493    ·    Commentary    
    ‘Advantage Assam’, the Assam Global Investor’s Summit held in February 2018, was the largest ever investment promotion initiative by the government of Assam. It opened with much fanfare and was covered extensively by the media. This comm ...
  • IPCS Discussion
    Vietnam-India Relations: Past, Present, and Future
    Discussion Report.    ·   04 Jul, 2018    ·    #5491    ·    Commentary    
    On 6 June 2018, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) hosted His Excellency Ton Sinh Thanh, Ambassador of Vietnam to India, who delivered his remarks on 'Vietnam-India Relations: Past, Present, and Future'. The interaction was held under ...
  • Asian Militaries and Artificial Intelligence
    Vijay Sakhuja.    ·   25 Jun, 2018    ·    #5484    ·    Commentary    
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) has found significant use in military hardware, and AI-enabled weapons and sensors are being developed by the US, Russia and a number of European countries. Likewise, some Asian militaries such as China, Japan, South Kore ...
  • India-Indonesia and Sabang Port: A Game Changer?
    Angshuman Choudhury.    ·   21 Jun, 2018    ·    #5482    ·    Commentary    
    During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 2018 visit to Indonesia, New Delhi and Jakarta announced that they would set up a Joint Task Force to “undertake projects for port related infrastructure in and around” the Sabang island, loca ...
  • Myanmar's Military and the Rohingya Crisis
    Roshni Kapur.    ·   11 Jun, 2018    ·    #5477    ·    Commentary    
    The Rohingya have fled from their homeland in Rakhine, Myanmar, whenever there has been an eruption in violence. Approximately 700,000 Rohingyas are currently living in Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar district ever since fleeing the latest outbreak of v ...
  • What Motivates India and Vietnam to Cooperate?
    Arushi Vig.    ·   21 May, 2018    ·    #5473    ·    Commentary    
    India and Vietnam recently signed a three-part deal that includes nuclear cooperation, agriculture and trade, and economic association. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in 2018 to strengthen cooperation in the atomic energy field fo ...
  • China: Naval Drill and Regime Legitimacy
    Palden Sonam.    ·   11 May, 2018    ·    #5463    ·    Commentary    
    President Xi Jinping reviewed the largest naval exercise in China’s history in the disputed South China Sea (SCS) on 12 April, barely two days after the USS Theodore Roosevelt sailed through the same troubled sea as in what the US called normal ...
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