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India’s Act East Policy Overshadowed By South Korea? As ASEAN Boosts Defense Budget, Seoul Set To Seize Bulk Of Orders
- April 17, 2023
- Posted by: admin
- Category: ASEAN & ARF
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There is growing interest in ASEAN as a market for defense exports. While the ASEAN market has grown over the years, interest in it has increased because of the emergence of new partners for defense exports to the region.
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India and ASEAN look to deepen partnership
- November 12, 2021
- Posted by: admin
- Category: ASEAN & ARF
The context and current focus of the India-ASEAN Summit are the Indo-Pacific. PM Modi noted the special role of ASEAN in India’s Act East Policy and the Security and Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR) as also in the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative. ASEAN is aware that India was a protagonist of the Quad’s focus on ASEAN centrality. Quad is not mentioned in the documents, but the collaboration is not restrained in any manner.
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2021 ASEAN’s new realities
- November 11, 2021
- Posted by: admin
- Category: ASEAN & ARF
ASEAN summits often tend to be routine affairs with long joint communiques. But the 26th October Summit had interesting dimensions. ASEAN had to balance Indo-Pacific rivalries, suspend Myanmar from attending, and expedite trade services agreements. As it seeks to expand its global engagement, ASEAN must remember to remain an area of solace and stability for its members.
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India must be smart in supporting Myanmar, if Quad won’t measure up
- March 25, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Category: ASEAN & ARF
Gaining overland access to Indian Ocean through Myanmar is crucial for China’s geostrategic designs. Which means India can’t protest against coup too loudly.
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House defence panel must ask 4 key questions — from lower expenditure to pension bill
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence can bring much needed clarity on India’s national security that Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget didn’t answer.
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Defence allocation: Shrinking budget, rising threats
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
FEB 09 2021, 23:31 IST UPDATED: FEB 09 2021, 23:45 IST
Indian Army. Credit: PTI Photo
The realities of the defence budget seem to be blowing in the political wind and, despite claims to the contrary, the allotment for 2021-22 could at best be described as ‘more of the same’. -
LAC Row: Strategic options, post-Ladakh
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The disengagement process in Ladakh is hopefully the concluding scene of another military episode in India-China relations.
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Guiding the strategic rudder
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
Political guidance for India’s strategic rudder is being tested by China’s Great Power ambitions. In Ladakh, disengagement and de-escalation remain on ice. An eyeball to eyeball confrontation continues, one that is pregnant with possibilities of sudden eruptions that could dwarf the Galwan incident in terms of force exchange and casualties.
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Voting Technology: Time for electoral reforms
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The possibility of improving the quality of leadership is the redeeming feature of democracy. Declining standards in political probity, the unrepresentative character of the elected legislatures, corrupt practices like electoral bonds are major concerns and call for reform of the electoral system.
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Ladakh row: A cautionary lesson for India for the 2020s
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The nosedive in India-China relations in 2020 throws up the natural question: Why did we not see it coming? Strategically, China’s geopolitical ambition has been acquiring wings and sharpening its claws for nearly two decades.
