Recalibrating South Asian alliances
China recently launched China Poverty Alleviation and Cooperation Development Centre (CPAC-DC), as part of CCP centenary celebrations. It managed to incorporate diplomatic representatives, of all South Asian nations, except India, Bhutan and Maldives. It was another attempt, to tap latent angst against India, for keeping South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), in a state […]
Questions on Quad: Sea foam or Indo-Pacific Nato?
The 2004 tsunami, propelled the US, Japan, Australia and India, to form an informal Quad for humanitarian and disaster relief. The group had more than a decade-long hiatus and Quad 2. 0 came into being in 2017. In the heady aftermath of the launching of BRI in 2018, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi dubbed it […]