Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.
While not making it clear whether the projectile that sank MSV Faize Noore Oliya came from Houthis, New Delhi condemned the attack on vessel which had a crew of 14.
Geography alone makes Indonesia strategically significant for India. Straddling the Malacca, Sunda, and Lombok Straits, it dominates the maritime crossroads between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Leading joint briefing with counterparts from US, Japan & Australia, EAM presents the partnership as coalition of 'maritime democracies' confronting an increasingly uncertain global order.
The foreign ministers also announced new partnership focused on Pacific infrastructure, beginning with a pilot port project in Fiji under the Quad Ports of the Future Partnership.
The mega Great Nicobar Development Project has invited sustained opposition from the Congress party. It should instead look to the statesmanship of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Japan’s technological sophistication aligns with India’s growing blue-water reach and central geographic position. Together, they can act as a counterweight to the Chinese navy.
Meeting comes amid change within member-states. Bangladesh NSA–the second senior official from Dhaka’s interim govt to travel to India–met with Doval ahead of the meet.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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