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The New Triangular Diplomacy: India, China and America at Sea
As in the Cold War, so in the current power play between the United States and China, the rest of Asia will simply not submit itself to the discipline of a bipolar framework. Asia will actively shape...
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Japan and India’s Growing Embrace
Shinzo Abe is known to be staunchly pro-Indian. Not only did he describe strengthening bilateral ties as extremely important to Japan’s interests in his 2006 book Utsukushii Kuni E (Towards a Beautiful...
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Managing The Pacific
The Indo-Pacific ranges from East Africa, across the Indian Ocean, to the western and central Pacific, including Japan and Australia. Within this vast area, cooperation between countries and systems of...
View ArticleIs Indo-Pacific The ‘New’ Pivot?
A free, open, prosperous and inclusive Indo-Pacific serves the long-term interests of all countries in the region. But if this concept turns out to be a divisive vision for Asia, both India and China...
View ArticleThe ‘Indo-Pacific’: Redrawing The Map To Counter China
The shift reflects the Trump administration’s acknowledgement of several key factors: It treats India as a regional power and not just an isolated country on the southern tip of the continent. It...
View ArticleUS May Boost Projects In Indo-Pacific To Counter Beijing’s Belt And Road Plan
Washington is considering boosting infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific to counter Beijing’s growing global clout through its “Belt and Road Initiative”, observers say, after last month’s...
View ArticleA New Order For The Indo-Pacific
China has transformed the Indo-Pacific region’s strategic landscape in just five years. If other powers do not step in to counter further challenges to the territorial and maritime status quo, the next...
View ArticleIndia’s Struggle For The Soul Of The Indo-Pacific
In the western Indian Ocean, a battle for the soul of the Indo-Pacific is set to play out between China and the liberal order hitherto led by the US, and increasingly represented by India. While New...
View ArticleBetween A Old War Ally And An Indo-Pacific Partner: India’s U.S.-Russia...
It feels like déjà vu all over again. Reports of an Indian arms deal with Russia. Concerns in the United States about said deal, with threats about punitive measures and warnings about implications for...
View Article‘Quad’ Quietly Gains Steam As Way To Balance China
Potentially the most important meeting in Asia this week isn’t on any official summit agenda, features no head of state and certainly doesn’t include China. Senior officials from Australia, India,...
View ArticleAmerica’s Next 5 Moves In The Indo-Pacific Region
Obama talked of pivoting to Asia. Donald Trump made Asia pivot to America. In the last two years, Trump has done much to increase U.S. influence in the Indo-Pacific region. But much more needs doing. A...
View ArticleFive Big New Indo-Pacific Ideas For New Delhi
As the Indo-Pacific concept becomes a more central part of India’s foreign policy, here are five ideas for this Indo-Pacific desk to consider, all of which aim to advance the shared vision of a “free,...
View ArticleFive Big Ideas For The Indian Foreign Ministry’s New Indo-Pacific Desk
As the Indo-Pacific concept becomes a more central part of India’s foreign policy, here are five ideas for this Indo-Pacific desk to consider, all of which aim to advance the shared vision of a “free,...
View ArticleUS, China War Drums Put SE Asia On New Edge
Did the recently concluded Shangri-La Dialogue talk shop, long a gauge of the Indo-Pacific’s geo-strategic temperature, presage a coming conflict between China and the United States, and potential end...
View ArticleWhy South China Sea Matters
The Indo-Pacific has prospered under American hegemony for the previous 40 years not just because of their huge investments — $328.8 billion in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations alone and a...
View ArticleU.S.-India Defense Ties: Rebalancing The Indo-Pacific
When the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” was articulated by the Trump administration, India rightly had concerns about the “Indo.” Did it mean India or the Indian Ocean? If the former, it would be...
View ArticleAmerica’s Indo-Pacific Folly
Only a decade ago, the phrase Indo-Pacific would have left most foreign policy experts scratching their heads. Today, it is not just stock language in Washington but a widely accepted...
View ArticleFear And Unknowing In The Indo-Pacific Region
The idea of a return to great-power competition is related, by its proponents, to calls for national renewal, technological innovation, and a change in military posture such as moving forces from the...
View ArticleEurope Eyes The Indo-Pacific, But Now It’s Time To Act
European countries have, in the past few decades, largely limited their interest in the Asia-Pacific to economic ties, focusing predominately on China. But times are changing. China is still in focus,...
View ArticleShould America Try To Pacify Chinese Hegemony?
There are two levels of strategic competition between the United States and China: within the Indo-Pacific region and globally. At both levels, it is a contest for relative power, influence, and...
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