Showing posts with label Sourabh Gupta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sourabh Gupta. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 May 2016

A swell in US–India defence cooperation (Sourabh Gupta, East Asia Forum)

On 10–13 April, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter paid his third visit in just 30 months to India — the seventh by a US Defense Secretary since 2008. The frequency of high-level visits reflects the prominence accorded to New Delhi within the Pentagon’s emerging strategy towards the Indo-Asia-Pacific region

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/05/22/a-swell-in-us-india-defence-cooperation/

Monday, 4 April 2016

Fishing freedoms on the hook in Indonesia-China legal stoush (Sourabh Gupta, Institute for China–America Studies, East Asia Forum)

Western and Asian governments and commentators have pilloried the Chinese government for its inscrutability on the so-called ‘nine-dash line’ in the South China Sea. Because the nine-dash line allegedly lacks a basis in international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), they have hectored China to clarify the line’s meaning and to derive all maritime claims from the textual provisions of the Convention.

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Sourabh Gupta is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies in Washington, D.C.