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Tag: Defense Alliance

Crew are seem on top of the Indian nuclear submarine Arihant. Photo: Indian Defense Ministry
Posted inOpinion

How India could get involved in new AUKUS alliance

by Arjun Gargeyas September 17, 2021September 17, 2021

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is heading to the United States to participate in the first in-person Quad summit to take place later this month. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, comprising India, Australia, Japan and the United States, has been getting a lot of media attention ever since it reconvened as a potential alliance last year. […]

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis speaks at the 16th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 3, 2017. Photo: Edgar Su / Reuters
Posted inAfghanistan, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, World

US must rethink how to handle Great Power conflict

by William Holland February 5, 2018
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (left) and his French counterpart Florence Parly inspect an honor guard at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on January 27, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Eugene Hoshiko / Pool
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, European Union, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Singapore, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Japan recruits France to counter China’s naval expansion

by Emanuele Scimia January 31, 2018
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un is seen alongside the newly developed intercontinental ballistic rocket Hwasong-15. Photo: Reuters via KCNA
Posted inBeijing, China, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Korea, World

US weighs its options against an ‘undeterrable’ Kim regime

by William Holland January 16, 2018
Japan and the US, an unbreakable alliance? Reuters/Toru Hanai
Posted inBeijing, China, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, World

The Japan-US relationship: How strong is the glue?

by Grant Newsham October 6, 2017February 18, 2020

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