Beijing / Phnom Penh / Washington – China is reportedly building new facilities at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base. The study group ‘AMTI’ has claimed in this regard and has also published satellite photographs of the site. The United States has criticized the move, accusing the Cambodian government of lacking transparency. ASEAN countries are beginning to […]
Hanoi/Tokyo/Beijing – Japan has initiated steps to strengthen cooperation with ASEAN countries further to counter the threat from China’s growing expansionist strategy. Japan has signed a defence cooperation agreement with Vietnam, allowing Japan to provide arms and defence technology to Vietnam. Japanese Defence Minister’s arrival in Vietnam, while Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is still […]
New Delhi: China had accused the QUAD alliance of India, the US, Japan and Australia of being an Asian NATO. Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar replied to the accusation. While NATO was a concept during the Cold War era, the QUAD is an organisation that shapes a better future of the world, Jaishankar said. Foreign […]
Bangkok: Myanmar’s shadow government has called on the people to stage a nationwide uprising against the military junta regime that overthrew the elected government. To free Myanmar from the clutches of military rule, small and large armed groups should target the army as well as military bases, said Duwa Lashi La, the interim president of […]
Tokyo/Guam/Beijing – While China is increasing its pressure on ASEAN countries, including Taiwan, by raising the issue of Afghanistan, the United States has taken an aggressive stance, with its allies, on the issue of Indo-Pacific. In the past few weeks, the United States has launched a series of naval exercises in the Indo-Pacific region to […]
New Delhi: The United States and China had a clash in the UN Security Council meeting on maritime security, chaired by India. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken directly mentioned the issues in the South China Sea region, saying that arrogance and threats in the maritime sector by any country cannot be tolerated. The US Secretary of […]
New Delhi – The Indian Defence Minister expected that a system based on international rules be maintained in the Indo-Pacific sector. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was speaking at the virtual conference with the Defence Ministers of the ASEAN countries. The unrestrained Chinese activities in the Indo-Pacific are considered the biggest threat in the region. In […]
Naypyidaw – 20 people were killed, and many were injured in action taken by the military on villagers protesting against the Junta regime in Myanmar. Sources informed that nearly ten soldiers were killed in the encounter between the army and the local armed groups in the Mindat region in the Chin province before this. The […]
Manila: – General Cirilito Sobejana, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Armed Forces of the Philippines, warned that if China does not stop building and expanding artificial islands in the disputed marine sectors, the Philippines also will start building artificial islands in this maritime region. Accusing that the deployment of Chinese militia ships in the Philippines marine […]
Tokyo: – Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi announced, ‘France too agrees with the stand for open and free Indo-Pacific Sector. Therefore, France will be participating in the war exercises to be held between the militaries of Japan and the United States for the first time.’ Although the Japanese Defence Minister did not announce, the international […]