Articles

US-Philippines Base Deal aimed to Check China

Introduction

The Philippines is on a diplomatic overdrive. There seems to be cracks in the ASEAN unity. The 10-member bloc is not in the same page on a host of issues. Cambodia is suspected to have succumbed to the Chinese temptation of e....

February 17, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China , Article , ASEAN , military base , SDF , Spratly Islands , Palawan , medium-range missiles , VFA , EDCA , Marcos Jr.

VIF News Digest: National Security - Defence Studies & Terrorism, 16-31 July 2022

DEFENCE

Chief of Army Staff Proceeds on a Three Day Visit to Bangladesh.
Prime Minister unveils ‘SPRINT’.
Joint Press Release of the 16th Round of India-China Corps Commander Level Meeting.
Marit....

August 08, 2022 Defense, National Security and Terrorism , Israel , India , China , Iran , Ethiopia , Afghanistan , Africa , Terrorism , J&K , Japan , LWE , Bangladesh , Indigenization , Oman , Self-reliance , SDF , Extremism , Somalia , Maoist , Mali , Hizbullah , SPRINT , iDEX-DIO , DAC , IslamicExtremism

Fresh Challenges for Kishida as Upper House Elections are held on 10 July

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

With less than a year in office, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida now confronts domestic political challenge when the country’s Upper House goes to the polls on 10 July in which his ruling coalition government expects to get a majority, which....

July 06, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Women empowerment , SDF , LDP , Article 9 , Komeito , Fumio Kishida , Upper House , declining birth rate , collective self-defence , Japan-US alliance

Japan and Australia ink Defence Pact with Eye on China

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Though the QUAD and AUKUS had received wide media attention in India, with each analysis applauding the merit of these initiatives, another significant development that took place in the past week has somewhat received less attention. The import of t....

January 10, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , QUAD , South China Sea , Taiwan , Uyghur , UNCLOS , SDF , Scott Morrison , Senkaku , Fumio Kishida , AUKUS , defence pact

A Perspective on the Senkaku Islands Dispute

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The dispute over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands comprising five uninhabited islands and three rocks totalling seven square kilometres in the East China Sea is often understated as a simple sovereignty dispute or a resource conflict. It may, in fact, be ....

September 04, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Southwestern Wall Defense , Uotsuri Island , ADIZ , SDF , PAFMM , UNECAFE , Okinawa Trough , Bilateral Fisheries Agreement , F35 , aircraft carrier