Vladimir Terehov
The Latest Balikatan Exercise and the Situation in the Philippines
The current Balikatan military exercises between the US and the Philippines (“balikatan” is a Tagalog word meaning “shoulder-to-shoulder”), which began on March 28 and will last until the end of April, are an event of wide-ranging significance, and thus deserve this author’s attention. First and foremost, because...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s Visit to India
It is now possible to be cautiously optimistic about relations between China, India and Japan, which may soon be put on a normal, stable footing - an essential prerequisite if we are to see an improvement in the overall situation in the Indo-Pacific region. That is despite the fact that the recent visit by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to India has rather dampened...
On the Visit of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to India and Cambodia
On March 19 - 21, 2022, the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited India and Cambodia. Despite the obvious difference in the “weight classes” of the visited countries, both stages of this trip constitute a single remarkable event at the present stage of the “Big World Game”, which focuses on the confrontation between...
