Encircling China and Praising India: The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific

January 19, 2021

The feeling from Rory Medcalf of the Australian National University was one of breathless wonder. “The US government,” he wrote in The Strategist, “has just classified one of its most secretive …

Indian-Pacific Region against the Backdrop of Ongoing Transition of Power in the US

December 7, 2020

Opinion

At this time, when the transfer of power in the United States is proving to be unprecedentedly difficult, two things draw the attention of the expert community: what the departing administration of a …

Europe Marks Distance from Indo-Pacific Strategy

October 13, 2020

Opinion

The European Council special meeting in Brussels on 1st October had Turkey, Belarus, Russia and China on its agenda. The foreign-policy decisions of the summit — comprising the heads of state or gover…

Is The Quad Plotting to Provoke a Proxy War With China in the Solomon Islands?

September 7, 2020

Opinion

The leader of the Solomon Islands province of Malaita announced earlier this week that his region will seek independence from the central government due to its disagreement with the capital over the l…

Germany Wades Into the Indo-Pacific Fray

September 7, 2020

Opinion

In a move that promises to rile China, Germany has officially joined the “Indo-Pacific” geopolitical club as outlined in a new 40-page policy guideline. The document makes Germany the second European …

The Seas of the Indo-Pacific in Turmoil

August 27, 2020

Opinion

In the chronicle of how the situation is developing in the region covered by the Indian and Pacific oceans, alas, there are no positive trends that will please readers. To exacerbate the confrontation…

Opponents of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

August 13, 2020

Opinion

It would seem a logical step, at least from an existential perspective: to ban something so utterly horrendous to life; to forbid its use in any circumstances, whatever rationale employed to justify i…

The Militarization of Strategic Waterways: US- India War Games Contemplated. Aggressive “Signal to China”

July 26, 2020

Opinion

“Whoever attains maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean would be a prominent player on the international scene.” (US Navy Geostrategist Rear Admiral Alfred Thayus Mahan (1840-1914)) Among Washington’s…