Sri Lanka: Debt-trapped
China has replaced India as Sri Lanka’s biggest economic partner. It is gaining control of Sri Lanka’s ports, which can give it leverage over India’s external trade
Courtesy: Gateway House
Courtesy: Gateway House
Courtesy: Israel Prime Minister/ Flickr
Bibi’s visit a shoring up of business synergies
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to India, which came as a fitting finale to the silver jubilee celebrations marking diplomatic relations between the two countries, showed a purposeful shift in focus from defence to business. The large Israeli trade delegation, accompanying the prime minister, was there to further robust business ties going back to 1972
Courtesy: Government of South Africa/ Flickr
South Africa leads BRICS, IORA in 2018
Internal political constraints dog it currently, but if overcome, South Africa can be a good chairman to BRICS and IORA in 2018. It also has a tough balancing act to perform between two great Asian powers, China and India
Courtesy:
Cementing 25 years of India-ASEAN relations
Prime Minister Modi's Act East policy is taking visible shape as leaders of the 10 Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) take their place as chief guests at India's 2018 Republic Day celebrations. This is unprecedented as New Delhi’s January 26 celebration has never had this large a number of chief guests. The year 2017 marked 50 years of ASEAN’s creation, and also 25 years of India-ASEAN relations.
Courtesy: Wikipedia
Powering a comprehensive national transportation policy
The year-old UDAN Regional Connectivity Scheme has mobilised India’s aviation sector, helping consolidate a domestic market for its indigenous commercial aircraft. It can similarly nurture strategic emerging industries – if a national transportation policy is put in place
Courtesy: MEA/ Flickr
India-ASEAN: salute to a commemorative summit
This is a partnership that has been based on mutuality, economic cooperation and undisputed political closeness ever since ASEAN’s inception. Now, the path into the future has to be different: creating a new security architecture and determining ASEAN’s role in the Quad are overarching questions that cannot be wished away
Courtesy: Center for American Progress
The United States and India: Forging an Indispensable Democratic Partnership
The United States and India must forge an indispensable democratic partnership that can serve as a pillar of peace, prosperity, and democracy around the world.
Courtesy:
Indo-Vietnam relations in the evolving Indo-Pacific Architecture
The following presentation was given by Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia at an event hosted by Southeast Asia Research Group on 9 January, 2018. Indo-Pacific Architecture – Latest Trends Much pleased with the shift from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific as the focus on India Read more
Courtesy: Flickr/MEA India
Soft power of Israel’s Indian Jews
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu’s official visit to India from January 14 to 19 will lay accent on the many commercial ties that bind the two countries. Equally important, if less visible, is Israel’s Indian Jewish diaspora, that has benefited greatly ever since full diplomatic relations were established
Courtesy: AP (Courtesy of The Asian Age)
The unchanged U.S.-Pakistan dynamic
Logistical support for this mission, movement of heavy equipment, fuel and other supplies, needs connectivity via Pakistan.