Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in currently on a tour of East Asia, with stops in South Korea (March 5-6) and in Japan (March 6-8). In both countries, Jaishankar sought to step up security and economic cooperation and more generally boost ties as India, Japan, and South Korea all respond to China’s growing influence … Read more
In 2011 a dinner reception hosted by a think tank in New Delhi sparked the idea of a formal trilateral between India, South Korea, and Japan. The idea soon bore fruit: the first India-Japan-ROK Trilateral Dialogue, involving a secretary from India’s Ministry of External Affairs and the ambassadors to India of Japan and South Korea, … Read more
When India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar went to Moscow last week, he appeared to turn the page in India-Russia ties after two years of tightrope walking. For the better part of the last two years, even as it had maintained neutrality on Ukraine and rapidly expanded trade with Russia, India had been wary of … Read more
India has had a busy couple of weeks. Following the India-U.S. 2+2 strategic dialogue in early November, India had another 2+2 with Australia last week. New Delhi hosted the second edition of the India-Australia Foreign and Defense Ministerial Dialogue on November 20. Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny … Read more
India and the U.S. held their 2+2 annual strategic dialogue on November 10. U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin were in New Delhi for the fifth iteration of the ministerial dialogue that began in 2018. The Indian side was led by Minister of External Affairs Dr. S. … Read more
Advertisement Last month, Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo visited India. The trip that was notable for a number of reasons. After discussing a range of regional and international issues, Manalo with his counterpart Dr. S. Jaishankar issued a joint statement that expressed support for the 2016 Arbitral Award on the South China Sea, which invalidated … Read more