Category Indo-Pacific Strategy

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Beijing’s Calculated Compartmentalization: Why China Is Preserving Economic Channels With Japan Despite Political Freeze

China-Japan Economic Channels: Compartmentalization Strategy

Beijing has quietly reopened economic dialogue channels with Japan through a June 2025 meeting between JAPIT officials and China's Vice Foreign Minister, signaling a calculated strategy to compartmentalize political disputes from economic engagement. However, fundamental disagreements on Taiwan and regional security remain unresolved.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 24, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

India’s AI Diplomacy Strategy: Leveraging the Act East Policy for Technology Sovereignty

India's AI Diplomacy and Act East Policy

India's Act East Policy is evolving beyond defense partnerships to embrace artificial intelligence as its core strategic dimension. By pursuing AI cooperation with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, India can achieve technology sovereignty while establishing itself as a genuine regional innovation partner.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 22, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Bangladesh’s Border Fence: Managing State Collapse Across the Myanmar Frontier

Bangladesh plans to fence its 270-kilometer border with Myanmar following the Arakan Army's control of northern Rakhine State, signaling a shift from state-to-state relations to managing a non-state armed organization. The measure reflects both security concerns and Dhaka's assertion that Myanmar's instability cannot indefinitely burden its neighbors.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 21, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Submarine Eruption Threatens Food Security in Papua New Guinea as Massive Pumice Rafts Disrupt Coastal Communities

Pumice Eruption Disrupts PNG Food Security

An underwater volcano in Papua New Guinea's Bismarck Sea is generating massive floating pumice rafts that threaten food security and maritime access in Manus Province. Unlike previous volcanic hazards, pumice disruption persists for months or years after eruption ends, with limited mitigation options available to vulnerable coastal communities.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 18, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

India-US Strategic Partnership at a Crossroads: Navigating Asymmetry and Divergent Regional Interests

India-US Relations: Strategic Partnership Amid Tension

India-US relations occupy an ambiguous geopolitical space shaped by shared concerns about China but strained by divergent regional priorities, asymmetric leverage, and recent military incidents. Both nations must navigate this paradox or risk squandering decades of strategic investment.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 17, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Japan’s Strategic Pivot: Building a State-Backed Defense Export Framework to Compete Globally

Japan's Defense Export Framework: Strategic Shift

Japan is examining creation of a state-backed Foreign Military Sales system, marking a historic shift from private defense exports to government-managed military technology transfers. The move reflects lessons from Ukraine and China's military expansion, positioning defense-industrial capacity as a strategic deterrent.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 16, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Philippines Rejects Chinese Sanctions Against Defense Secretary Teodoro, Escalating South China Sea Tensions

Philippine Defense Secretary Teodoro Sanctions China Escalation

China has sanctioned Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., prompting Manila to condemn the measure as an unfriendly act. The escalation reflects deepening tensions over South China Sea sovereignty and the Philippines' strengthened security alignment with the United States.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 14, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Sri Lanka’s Emerging Cybercrime Vulnerability: How Regional Crackdowns Are Reshaping Asia’s Digital Underworld

Sri Lanka Cybercrime Vulnerability: Regional Displacement

As Cambodia's enforcement against cybercriminal networks intensifies, transnational scam operations are relocating to Sri Lanka. The island nation's institutional vulnerabilities and economic pressures create conditions for either temporary criminal displacement or permanent entrenchment in Asia's cybercrime infrastructure.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 12, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Xi Jinping’s Return to Pyongyang: Reassessing China-North Korea Strategic Alignment

Xi Jinping's North Korea Visit: China's Peninsula Strategy

Xi Jinping's June 2019 visit to North Korea after a seven-year gap signaled China's strategic reassertion on the Korean Peninsula, demonstrating Beijing's determination to remain central to peninsula diplomacy and regional security calculations amid U.S.-China competition.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 11, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

India’s Gen Z Political Mobilisation: The Jantar Mantar Protests and Modi Government’s Democratic Vulnerabilities

India's Gen Z Political Mobilisation and Democratic Challenges

India's Gen Z political mobilisation, exemplified by the Cockroach Janta movement's June 6 Jantar Mantar protest, signals emerging challenges to the Modi government's political control and raises questions about India's democratic trajectory and regional stability.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 9, 2026