Securing Asia’s Superhighway: Inside India’s Malacca Strait Strategy – Copy

In early September 2025, a significant chapter was added to the relationship between India and Singapore

China’s Indian Ocean Playbook : Blending Geoeconomics with Military Might Through Anti-Access and Area Denial

Over the past two decades, China’s strategic posture in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has undergone a profound transformation, shifting from a peripheral commercial presence to an increasingly structured geopolitical and military engagement. The IOR is long dominated by extra-regional powers, such as the United States, France, United Kingdom and India, now forms a critical […]

Securing Asia’s Superhighway: Inside India’s Malacca Strait Strategy

In early September 2025, a significant chapter was added to the relationship between India and Singapore

China’s Artificial Islands on Low tide elevations: Can Concrete Create Sovereignty?

As defined under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Article 13

Territorial Thinking: When the Land-Based Idea of Sovereignty Fuels Ocean Disputes

The idea of owning and controlling land (territoriality) has long shaped how countries deal with each other. What once began as a matter of physical demarcation on land has extended into the fluid and legally complex maritime domain. This aspect is what experts call ‘territoriality’. So what is Territorialisation of maritime disputes? When the states […]