The meeting between Modi & Morrison came a week after they reviewed the progress in India-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, including the recent 'two-plus-two' dialogue.
Nothing should deter the Modi govt from seriously pursuing India-France-Japan trilateral as a security framework in the Indo-Pacific. It will only strengthen the AUKUS.
The trilateral security alliance will allow the US and the UK to provide Australia with the technology to develop nuclear-powered submarines for the first time.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla says new trilateral security alliance between US, UK and Australia is ‘neither relevant’ to Quad, nor will it impact its functioning.
Southeast Asian nations are worried the US-UK-Australia partnership, which will help Canberra acquire nuclear-powered submarines, could provoke China and spur a regional arms race.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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