The Quad Sharpens Its Edges

The Quad, a loose strategic coalition of the Indo-Pacific region’s four leading democracies, is rapidly solidifying this year in response to China’s aggressive foreign policy. Following a recent meeting of their top foreign-policy officials in Tokyo, Australia, India, Japan, and the United States are now actively working toward establishing a new multilateral security structure for the region, writes Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research.

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Crisis Stability and Confidence Building Measures in China–India–Pakistan Nuclear Triangle

This year the United Nations marked the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). But, as Professor Emeritus Ramesh Thakur, a renowned expert on nuclear control regimes, notes there is little to celebrate and even less to be optimistic about as the risks of nuclear war persist, especially in the Indo-Pacific. Some bold new thinking is required.

China Is Paying a High Price for Provoking India

China's recent incursions into the icy borderlands of India's Ladakh region have resulted in increased pushback from its Indo-Pacific neighbours. Far from entrenching China's preeminence in the region, President Xi's expansionist policies have placed the China-India relationship on a knife-edge, writes Professor Brahma Chellaney of the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research.

The ScoMosa Summit

The value of personal diplomacy was on display in the Morrison-Modi Summit last week – quickly dubbed ‘the ScoMosa’ summit after some culinary Twitter banter between the leaders. But as emeritus professor Ramesh Thakur writes, the virtual dialogue had great substance, paving the way for closer bilateral relations against the backdrop of a more aggressive China and less reliable US.

Modi, Morrison and the Dragon in the Zoom Room

The Australia India relationship is being invigorated against the backdrop of an increasingly multipolar world. As the Australia India Institute's Tanya Spisbah writes, the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated tectonic shifts between powers in a fluid Indo-Pacific, heightening the importance of forging trustworthy bilateral ties.

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The Quad Sharpens Its Edges

Crisis Stability and Confidence Building Measures in China–India–Pakistan Nuclear Triangle

China Is Paying a High Price for Provoking India

The ScoMosa Summit

Modi, Morrison and the Dragon in the Zoom Room

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