Baladas Ghoshal

China’s greed for territories and resources, be it in the land or sea is again on display in the South China Sea.When the world is distracted by the ongoing Ukraine …

Beginning as a firebrand Islamist student leader, co-opted into the ruling UMNO (United Malay National Organization) in 1982 by then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad, rising rapidly through the ranks to …

The 40th and 41st ASEAN summits will take place in Cambodia from November 10-13 at a time when the organization is celebrating 55 years of its founding. It is also …

Amidst an already frayed relationship between the United States and China, tensions are soaring over rapid developments in the Taiwan Strait since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei early …

<p> After nearly a year and a half since the military junta led by army chief General Min Aung Hlaing seized power and formed the State Administration Council (SAC) in …

<p> Defying a string of stark warnings and threats from China that have sent tensions between the world’s two superpowers soaring, Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, second in line to the …

<p> “The Indonesia and Australia relationship has blown hot and cold over the years . . . . It has been like a rollercoaster, sometimes you scream and sometimes you …

<p> The controversy that erupted at the end of last year over naming a street in the Menteng central district of Jakarta after the founding father of modern Turkey Mustafa …

<p> On Monday, May 9, Filipinos voted for their next President. A development that seems to be special this time as never since 1986, when peoples’ power ousted dictatorial Ferdinand …

<p> After more than a month of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, the war is moving into an uncertain direction with no respite to the former’s onslaught on the latter …

<p> Two inter-related factors guided the Southeast Asian state’s response to the Ukrainian war – one is their traditional inclination towards non-interference in the internal affairs of other states and …

<p> The Ukraine war brings into light once again the irrelevance of the UN charter and all the noble principles and values that powerful states swear by in their conduct …

<p> The spurt of incidents of attacks on Hindu minority community in Bangladesh in recent times brings into focus the increasing influence of Islamists in that country despite the Hasina …

<p> <strong>One is not sure whether the Quad as yet is a ‘powerful mechanism to push back coercion in the Indo-Pacific,’ as the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, claimed …

<p> In its one year of power, the Myanmar Junta remains completely alienated from the people, yet not vulnerable to any popular pressure for leaving the political scene. Symbolic of …

<p> Thailand, a country that is most under Beijing’s cultural, political, economic and strategic influence is also picking up the courage to revisit and push back against China’s grand design …

<p> Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is a legend in Southeast Asia, not just among the Indian diaspora, but also amongst others in the region, particularly in Malaysia, Singapore and Burma, …

<p> Southeast Asia, as it was in the 1960s and ‘70s, has again become the fulcrum in the current international relations and global conflict between the two superpowers –this time, …