Jay Maniyar is a Researcher affiliated to the National Maritime Foundation in New Delhi, India. He writes on issues pertaining to Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), the ASEAN, and the Indian Ocean and Indo-Pacific regions of the world.
As two major emerging powers, India and China are maritime-oriented nation-states. New Delhi and Beijing have a unique set of vested interests in the Indian Ocean region (IOR). Geostrategic supremacy in this area is deemed to be a highly profitable national venture on the part of both countries. Thi
The Ukraine crisis has re-ignited the nuclear weapon debate once again. India’s most pervasive nuclear ‘news’ involved two breakthrough events – the nuclear tests of 1974 and 1998. The latter, in particular, overhauled India’s international image as a ‘nuclear power self-constrained b