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By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today
India and the US have designated themselves as ‘strategic partners’ with political, economic and military dimensions to the relationship. But the partnership has kept coming under strain.
The reasons are two-fold: Firstly, its contours are not defined. Secondly, Washington’s ‘America First’ policy and its tendency to pursue a foreign policy almost exclusively in its own immediate interest, clashes with India’s penchant for maintaining ‘strategic autonomy’ despite its increasing economic and military dependence on the US.
Vaccine Raw Material Controversy
The latest irritant was the US refusal to supply raw materials to India for the manufacture COVID-19 vaccines. The US said that it needs the raw materials for its own manufacturing programme. The Biden Administration quoted a law under which an item could not be exported if the US need for it was not met first. A US spokes
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While there is a widely accepted international law of the sea, reflected in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the great powers of the world are divided over competing and, in some cases, incompatible, domestic maritime laws or interpretations of UNCLOS. The areas of disagreement extend to fundamental principles, such as which waters lie under a nation state’s jurisdiction and what it is entitled to do, and forbid, in those waters.
Compounding the problem, some of the sharpest divisions have emerged between the world’s two increasingly antagonistic superpowers, China and the United States. Their diverging approaches have already prompted several dangerous encounters at sea. Worse still, the rift has manifested in one of the most hotly contested and strategically volatile waterways of the world, the South China Sea.
Dhaka hosts Session of IOC Sub-Commission for Western Pacific
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DHAKA, April 27, 2021 (BSS) – Bangladesh is hosting the 13th Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) virtually from April 27 to 29, 2021.
Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has inaugurated the 3-day Session on behalf of the host country and delivered the welcome remarks.
Momen emphasized on conducting more timely research on the availability, sustainable utilization and exploration of the marine resources that are available in nature.
He requested IOC WESTPAC for more innovative approaches in capacity building programme and sought support for engaging young researchers and scientists of Bangladesh in its ongoing and future research initiatives.