Despite global economic reach and advanced missiles and aircraft carriers, it’s simple geography that will continue to delineate the limits of China’s maritime ambitions.

An overview of the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar corridor, which through to 2020 remains the most hypothetical of all of Belt and Road's regional spokes.

If Beijing is serious about securing the SLOC, the construction of new overseas military bases is a matter of ‘when,’ not ‘if.’

A backgrounder on the Indian Navy’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine: the INS Arihant.

A variety of shared geopolitical interests will bring New Delhi and Washington closer together in the year to come.

Chinese investment has rejuvenated some developing countries and left others locked in a spiral of unsustainable debt.

Unity among the BRICS countries will continue to be thwarted by longstanding geopolitical disputes.

Opposition politician Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has won the Maldives’ general election, putting China’s latest foray into India’s backyard in jeopardy.

Reports suggest that China wants to build a military base in Vanuatu, squarely in Australia’s geostrategic backyard.

It’s not just the Maldives where India and China are staring each other down in the Indian Ocean. The “Resplendent Island” is also a potential frontline in the simmering geopolitical competition between Asia’s giants.

There is a geopolitical dimension to the dramatic events unfolding in the Maldives.

A political crisis in Maldives is presenting possible inroads for China’s ‘string of pearls’ strategy in the Indian Ocean.