Global Geopolitics and Geoeconomics NewsRussia and China are blocking efforts at the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo to Myanmar, as the international efforts to halt the violence in Myanmar is yet to yield results.
SOURCE: HUNDUSTAN TIMES
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Iran has blamed regional arch-foe Israel for a sabotage incident at its key Natanz nuclear site and threatened to exact revenge, in what appeared to be latest episode in a long-running covert war. The incident occurred amid diplomatic efforts by Iran and the United States to revive Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, an accord Israel fiercely opposed.
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Military activity in the South China Sea spiked over the weekend as a Chinese aircraft carrier entered the region and a US Navy expeditionary strike group wrapped up exercises. Meanwhile, the US and Philippines were preparing for joint drills as the US secretary of defense proposed ways to deepen military cooperation between Washington and Manila after China massed vessels in disputed waters.
SOURCE: CNN
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The Chinese air force sent a fleet of aircraft close to Taiwan for the second time this week in the latest sign of military intimidation against the separately ruled island. Military action has steadily escalated in the seas and skies around Taiwan in recent months as the U.S. pushes back against Chinese attempts to intimidate the government in Taipei.
SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES
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India protested to the United States for a navy vessel conducting a transit through its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) without consent, in a rare row between the friendly navies of the two countries. India’s military monitored the movement as it transited from the Persian Gulf towards the Malacca Straits.
SOURCE: REUTERS
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India held a new round of talks with China to iron out differences over the next phase of disengagement in Eastern Ladakh. India is believed to have insisted on disengagement at the remaining friction points, now that the two sides have successfully completed disengagement at the Pangong Tso Lake.
SOURCE: THE DAILY STAR
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Russia is increasing arms sales to Myanmar’s military and steadfastly standing by Myanmar’s coup leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, an alliance that will further Moscow’s foreign policy ambitions across Southeast Asia through future weapons sales, analysts said. They said they are not surprised Russia and China were backing a proposed ASEAN summit on the crisis.
SOURCE: VOA NEWS
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Iran announced it has started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges in a breach of its undertakings under a troubled 2015 nuclear deal, following s an opening round of talks with representatives of the remaining parties to the nuclear deal on bringing the United States back into the deal.
SOURCE: FRANCE 24
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Israel, in the first official visit since President Joe Biden took office in January. This visit will ‘reaffirm the enduring U.S. commitment to the U.S.-Israel strategic partnership and Israels Qualitative Military Edge’.
SOURCE: HAARETZ
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South Korea and the United States signed a deal marking what some say is a return to a stronger U.S.-ROK alliance. “The agreement is expected to shape stable conditions for the stationing of the United States Forces in Korea”.
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