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Photo Courtesy: "How Imminent Is A Potential Sino-Taiwanese Conflict?" US General Douglas McArthur once labeled Taiwan “an unsinkable aircraft carrier” – an island fortress, meant as a bulwark for the US Island Chain Strategy against China and the erstwhile Soviet Union in the West Pacific. China always considered Taiwan as a breakaway province, which, if controlled by China, would nullify historic US influence over the region through it. It would host Chinese bases into the

The Rakhaine State in Myanmar bears varied strategic importance to Bangladesh, regional and the global powers. The Rohingyas are an indigenous Muslim minority from Rakhine. Roughly 3.5 million Rohingyas are dispersed worldwide. Before August 2017, the majority of the Rohingyas in Myanmar resided in Rakhine State, where they accounted for nearly a third of the population. Ethnically, linguistically, and religiously, they diverge from Myanmar's dominant Buddhist population. Den

Minilateralism may be defined as voluntary, non-binding, consensus-based informal and more targeted issue-specific partnerships among nations with shared interests and security concerns. Designed to temporarily address any specific threat, contingency or security issues, such collaborations may encompass numerous fields of international cooperation like security, climate change, economy, trade, connectivity, terrorism, natural disasters and other humanitarian aspects. Despite

Why is Rakhine so contested?  Because Rakhine holds truly a critical position in Myanmar and has a strategic standpoint equally for China and India. For last couple of decades, China has been highly instrumental in investing significantly in Myanmar.  The China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) aims to provide China comfortable entree to the Bay of Bengal (BoB) by linking Kunming in Yunnan in China to the erstwhile minor port town Kyaukphyu in Rakhaine through both land route

Asian giants India and China, world’s two most populous countries, share a long border of 3488 kilometers and a long history of border disputes. Sino‐Indian relations remain strained by their territorial disputes throughout the last decades. The countries continuously vie for dominance along their bordering landmass - resulting in occasional armed clashes, and also across the vast swaths of the Indian Ocean and towards the Pacific. The dynamism of Sino-Indian relations is an