... manufacturing GDP for exports. Besides the civilizational contacts, the process of fostering comprehensively intimating ties with the ASEAN comity of nations, as with other economic titans in East Asia, has been a signature initiative of the Modi government during ... ... sovereignty contravening China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) component within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Chinese refusal to allow Indian candidature of NSG membership decoupled from that of Pakistan, that is viewed and regarded as deeply and ...
... and Australian approaches in this field?
In terms of geographical focus, the Australian conception ranges from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It includes a particular focus on India, North Asia and the United States, with Southeast Asia and ASEAN at its heart. In terms of policy, our central focus is to promote an open, inclusive and prosperous Indo–Pacific, in which the rights of all states are respected. To that end, we are enhancing cooperation with major democracies in the region — ...
... established official diplomatic relations with China only in 1990. The cause for the delay (which no one ever saw a reason to hide) was Singapore’s desire to avoid being labelled as “yet another Chinese state” or “Beijing’s representative in ASEAN.” Singapore waited for other members of the alliance to normalize their relations with China (Indonesia was the last to do so in 1990), and only then exchanged ambassadors with China.
China–Singapore relations began to develop rapidly. Nevertheless,...
... integration initiative – the Comprehensive Eurasian Partnership – which would, in addition to the EAEU and China, include ASEAN countries. The initiative is still sketchy, but if it gets off the ground, the consequences could be immense.
The joint ... ... UN Charter in the political sphere; ensuring a balance of the entire range of weapons at the minimum level necessary and a refusal to expand military alliances that could potentially threaten other countries.
The declaration is key to future world politics....
The global dominance of the “collective West” is largely based on the US–Europe alliance. But how strong is this “indestructible bloc”? Aren’t there contradictions growing inside the union, capable of reducing the capacity of the members of the transatlantic community to effectively respond to increasingly complex international challenges? Analysts at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, a.k.a. Chatham House, have sought answers to these questions...
... enabling it to pursue broader cooperation with other countries’ armies, especially with the US and Southeast Asia. Specifically, Abe managed to have his country mitigate the self-limitation imposed on the export of defense technologies and equipment. ASEAN is expected to become the main beneficiary: the authors of the report call for redoubling efforts to build its defense capacity.
East-West Center. U.S.-Japan Relations and
Southeast Asia. Meeting Regional Demands
Finally, it is about the US ambition ...
... money on a large scale and does not confine itself to mere promises. However, the choice between the bids for the construction of infrastructure in any case is less fraught with consequences than the choice of partners for the defense alliance: the ASEAN countries will be glad to hold over the decision on the latter longer than the one on their political integration.
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. Strefford, Patrick, “Foreign Debt: Distorting Japan’s ODA Diplomacy towards Myanmar”,
Ritsumeikan Kokusai Kenkyū
, Vol.1 19, 2006.
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The situation around the South China Sea is developing rapidly. However, asserting unambiguously that territorial disputes between China and the ASEAN countries combined with the regional rivalry between Beijing and Washington are bound to lead to military confrontation is too far-fetched. Despite growing U.S. military and political presence, countries in South-East Asia tend to favor enhanced ...
... for the Association to successfully complete the Code
Over recent years, the South China Sea has lived up to its reputation as one of the hotbeds of instability of Asia Pacific. However, in 2002 China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed the
Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea
. This document regulates the policy of the countries that claim the disputed territories. One of its provisions envisages the development of a code of conduct for the South ...
