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Northlines Lt. Gen Prakash Katoch India, Australia, Japan, and the US held their third Quad ministerial meeting on February 18 to discuss ways to enhance cooperation for maintaining a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific in the face of China’s growing aggression in the region. This was the third meeting of Quad Foreign Ministers, after September 2019 and October 2020, since the mechanism at the level of officials was revived in 2017. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar parti...

Future prospects of the Quad depend largely on US choices, although an array of other factors such as Chinas behaviour and other tendencies in Asian geopolitics remain relevant.

Time for a New American Century The president‐elect advance a strategy clearly elaborating the principles of U.S. foreign policy and why the protection of vital national interests require American global leadership. OVER THE last five years The National Interest has conducted several foreign policy symposiums. For the September/October 2015 issue, the focus was on “What is America’s Purpose?” And, then the January/February 2017 issue, like now, posed the question, “What Next?” in t...

Moons rush for breakthrough with Japan raises questions Posted : 2020-12-17 17:07 Updated : 2020-12-17 18:13 President Moon Jae-in speaks by phone with new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Sept. 24 at Cheong Wa Dae. / Courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae By Do Je-hae President Moon Jae-ins rush to resolute serious issues with Japan before the Tokyo Olympic Games is not going as well as Cheong Wa Dae had hoped. Moon named former four-term ruling party lawmaker Kang Chang-il as the next ambass...

Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka “You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” – Jesus Christ (Luke 12: 56) – I watched the second and final Trump-Biden debate on CNN after I had spent the two previous days watching the 20th Amendment debate on the Sri Lankan Parliament channel. The rules of the US Presidential debate were drawn up by the independent Debate Commission and included a ‘mute button’ in case...

WASHINGTON -- The United States strongly believes its cooperation with South Korea in the Indo-Pacific region will continue to advance regardless of who is in power in either country, a senior US diplomat said Thursday. Marc Knapper, deputy assistant secretary of state for Korea and Japan, also argued the South Korea-US relationship is no longer a bilateral alliance but a global alliance that helps promote their sha...

US optimistic about cooperation with South Korea in Indo-Pacific: Knapper Posted : 2020-12-11 15:04 Updated : 2020-12-11 15:04 The United States deputy assistant secretary of state for Korea and Japan Marc Knapper. Korea Times file The United States strongly believes its cooperation with South Korea in the Indo-Pacific region will continue to advance regardless of who is in power in either country, a senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday. Marc Knapper, deputy assistant secretary of state for Ko...