Iron Curtain 2.0
Excursion to the past On March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in the US state of Missouri, former British prime minister Winston Churchill delivered a famous speech that marked the beginning of a long-lasting...
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The Political Dynamics of Defence Acquisitions
The arms race and defence acquisition is a pattern of competitive procurement of military capabilities between two or more countries involving bureaucratic management and defence organizations turning their money into maximum military capacity. This...
Europe and China must continue talking despite disagreements, EU says
The European Union and China must continue engaging on a number of issues despite differences, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in a video call on Tuesday,...
QUAD summit 2021: From countering China’s rise to being a force for global good
Following the Indian Ocean tsunami, India, Japan, Australia, and the US made an alliance to provide cooperation on disaster relief efforts. In 2007, then, at that point, PM of Japan, Shinzo Abe, formalized the...
AUKUS makes waves for the Indo-Pacific regional order
John West reports from Australia on the enhanced trilateral security partnership called “AUKUS”, between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which has been making waves in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. One of...
Indo-Pacific and the Era of Minilateralism
‘Minilateralism’ is the word of the month! Days before the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meetings were to graduate from virtual space to physical one, the emergence of AUKUS (US Pact with UK and Australia) added...
US President Joe Biden’s Meeting with UK Prime Minister Johnson
President Biden of the United States met Australian Prime Minister Morrison on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York on Tuesday and received British Prime Minister Johnson in the Oval...
Indo-Pacific conundrum, what Joe Biden is up to?
In a joint statement, US President Joe Biden, UK PM Boris Johnson and the latter’s Australian counterpart Scott Morrison announced on Sept 16, 2021, that Australia-UK-US was forming a security alliance, nicknamed AUKUS, with...
