Source: TH Context: Indonesia, along with the United States and allied nations, has launched the annual military exercise “Super Garuda Shield 2025”, aimed at enhancing regional security amid rising Indo-Pacific tensions. About Super Garuda Shield 2025: What it is? A large-scale multinational military exercise conducted annually since 2009. Focused on combat readiness, interoperability, and regional …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International Groupings and organisations. Context: A new Global Security Initiative has been put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping. This initiative will look to counter the Indo-Pacific strategy and the Quad – the India, U.S., Australia, Japan grouping. Aim of this initiative: As per the Chinese President, …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Context: Experts have said that increasing both the Quad’s membership and influence can serve as the basis of the Biden administration’s strategy to check China’s maximalist ambitions in Asia. For this, experts suggested inviting South Korea to join the Quadrilateral Security …
Introduction: The foreign ministers of the Quad grouping of India, the US, Australia and Japan vowed to work vigorously to achieve the grouping’s shared vision of a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific and collectively deal with common threats such as terrorism. At the Quad Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Melbourne, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, US …
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GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Context: With China and Russia coming closer, the US has planned to “enhance cooperation, engagement, strategic and economic ties” with its Quad partners. Focus areas: To further bolster ties between their countries at all levels of government while finding …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Conservation related issues. Context: The Quad, which was born in response to a natural calamity, the tsunami of 2004, are unified in saving the planet from environmental degradation. Efforts by Quad in this regard: In the first-ever in-person leaders’ summit of the Quad (held in the US in …
GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Context: US President Joe Biden will be hosting the first in-person meeting of the Quad countries on September 24. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian PM Scott Morrison and Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga will be present at the meeting. At the meeting, …
