Region | India and South Asia

Map of India and South Asia including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.

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View our expert commentary and informed analysis on the latest developments in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.

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US passes Taipei Act -China's fresh adventurism in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait- India's lockdown threatens a humanitarian crisis Read More

India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease?

India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease as desperate migrant workers struggle to get home. Read More

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The past fortnight drove home the rather surreal realisation that we’re living in unprecedented times. Never before, at least in the living memory of today’s… Read More

Part 2 | Indian Ocean Air Power: Extra Regional Air Forces

PETER LAYTON | Peter Layton turns his attention to the extra-regional players: The United States, United Kingdom, and France in this second part… Read More

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The coronavirus crisis, or what might be more aptly described as the coronavirus pandemic, has become the most definitive phenomenon this year whose second… Read More

Part 1 | Indian Ocean air power: An ocean of air forces

PETER LAYTON | The Indian Ocean has become an area of geostrategic competition. As Australia is an Indian Ocean country, it is incumbent our… Read More

Side effects: Covid-19 allows India a chance to lend Myanmar a hand

The Indian Air Force last week evacuated 112 people stranded in Wuhan, one of several operations by India to the the Chinese… Read More

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Change is the only constant in life they say—this holds even more true for politics. The past fortnight witnessed yet another demonstration of how dynamic… Read More

The Pacific in India’s Indo-Pacific

IAN HALL | In late September last year, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi devoted… Read More

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The Indo-Pacific region continued to witness the unfolding of the coronavirus pandemic as more and more cases came to light this fortnight. The World Health… Read More