Ashu Maan

Oct 14, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Shruti Pandalai |Ashu Maan |OORJA TAPAN

Exercise Malabar is underway in the Bay of Bengal, hosted by India. The navies of the four Quad nations – Australia, India, Japan, and the United States – coming together for a multilateral exercise aiming to enhance interoperability and preparedness to address shared maritime challenges in the Indo-Pacific is a significant strategic signal in itself.

Oct 10, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Haider Ali Khan |Ashu Maan |OORJA TAPAN

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk’s recent visit to Pakistan opened new avenues for bilateral cooperation between the two countries. During his trip to Islamabad, Overchuk held meetings with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, President Asif Ali Zardari, and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar over trade, regional connectivity, and defense. Overchuk’s visit held particular significance for Islamabad because it publicly conveyed Russia’s support for Pakistan’s membership in the BRICS bloc.

Sep 24, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Ashu Maan |OORJA TAPAN |Arvind Mohan

In the past few months, there has been a sudden uptick in official interactions between India and China. Their foreign ministers met twice in July, followed by the 30th and 31st rounds of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination (WMCC) on India-China Border Affairs on July 31 and August 29.

Jul 12, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Jagannath Panda |Eerishika Pankaj |Ashu Maan |OORJA TAPAN

In June 2024, former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi minced no words in criticizing the Chinese government and President Xi Jinping for the persecution of Tibetans, including attempts to erase their culture. Pelosi was part of a U.S. delegation that met with the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India, where he has been living in exile since he was forced to flee Tibet in 1959 after an uprising against China’s repressive rule was brutally suppressed.

May 6, 2024 | claws.in | Ashu Maan

The Strategic Support Force (SSF), People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) fifth service branch and Xi Jinping’s brainchild met its demise on 19 April 2024. The SSF touted as a significant step towards “informatization” by the PLA as part of its latest operational concept i.e., “Informatized Local Wars” (2015) was tasked with the integration of cyber data and capabilities into operations across electromagnetic and space warfare domains.