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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 participated in the virtual meeting along with his counterparts from the US, Japan and Australia. This...

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 the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In answering the question “What Now?” for 2...

Moon's 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-in's 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 ambassador to Japan last month. It was the first time he had named a politician to the post, after first...

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 either or both candidates kept interrupting. If it were Sri Lanka today (after 20A), the Debate Com...