Independent Insight on Pacific Strategy Advancing Security, Policy, and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Sri Lanka’s Emerging Cybercrime Vulnerability: How Regional Crackdowns Are Reshaping Asia’s Digital Underworld

Sri Lanka Cybercrime Vulnerability: Regional Displacement

As Cambodia's enforcement against cybercriminal networks intensifies, transnational scam operations are relocating to Sri Lanka. The island nation's institutional vulnerabilities and economic pressures create conditions for either temporary criminal displacement or permanent entrenchment in Asia's cybercrime infrastructure.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 12, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Xi Jinping’s Return to Pyongyang: Reassessing China-North Korea Strategic Alignment

Xi Jinping's North Korea Visit: China's Peninsula Strategy

Xi Jinping's June 2019 visit to North Korea after a seven-year gap signaled China's strategic reassertion on the Korean Peninsula, demonstrating Beijing's determination to remain central to peninsula diplomacy and regional security calculations amid U.S.-China competition.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 11, 2026

Governance & Human Security

Tajikistan’s Custody Death Case Exposes Systemic Accountability Gaps in Central Asian Law Enforcement

Tajikistan Custody Death Prosecution: Accountability Limits

Six Dushanbe police officers face prosecution over Maksudjon Saidov's custody death, marking a rare accountability case in Tajikistan. However, the absence of torture charges reveals significant limitations in Central Asian legal frameworks for addressing systemic detention abuses.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 10, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

India’s Gen Z Political Mobilisation: The Jantar Mantar Protests and Modi Government’s Democratic Vulnerabilities

India's Gen Z Political Mobilisation and Democratic Challenges

India's Gen Z political mobilisation, exemplified by the Cockroach Janta movement's June 6 Jantar Mantar protest, signals emerging challenges to the Modi government's political control and raises questions about India's democratic trajectory and regional stability.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 9, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Japan-South Korea Military Cooperation Resumes: Why the SAREX Revival Signals Shifting Indo-Pacific Alignments

Japan-South Korea SAREX Revival: Military Cooperation Amid Regional Tensions

Japan and South Korea have resumed their bilateral search and rescue exercise after nine years, signalling pragmatic military cooperation despite unresolved historical tensions. The SAREX revival reflects shifting regional security imperatives as both nations face intensifying threats from North Korea and China.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 8, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Beyond Bipolarity: Managing Great Power Competition Without Global Fragmentation

Managing US-China Competition Without Global Fragmentation

US-China rivalry threatens to become the sole organizing principle of international politics, subordinating all policy domains to geopolitical competition. For Indo-Pacific states, this creates acute constraints on policy autonomy and institutional capacity precisely when multilateral cooperation is most needed.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 7, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

India’s Commercial Space Sector: How State Support for Deep Tech Startups Reshapes Regional Power Dynamics

India's Space Sector: Private Innovation and Strategic Competition

India is strategically nurturing private deep tech startups to transform its space capabilities and reduce reliance on foreign satellite systems. This state-supported commercialisation approach reshapes India's technological sovereignty and regional power dynamics across the Indo-Pacific.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 6, 2026

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

South Korea’s Political Continuity: Oh Se-hoon’s Fifth Term as Seoul Mayor and Implications for Democratic Governance

Oh Se-hoon Fifth Term Seoul Mayor Conservative Dominance

Oh Se-hoon's election to a fifth term as Seoul Mayor reflects voter preference for conservative governance continuity and the People Power Party's institutional dominance in South Korea's capital. The reelection underscores municipal political stability amid broader national polarization.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 5, 2026

Governance & Human Security

India’s Press Freedom Decline: What Deteriorating Media Independence Signals for Democratic Governance

India Press Freedom Decline: Democratic Governance Implications

India's declining press freedom ranking reflects systematic pressures on journalistic independence through regulatory weaponization, media ownership concentration, and coordinated harassment. These structural trends threaten democratic accountability mechanisms critical to regional stability.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 4, 2026

Indo-Pacific Strategy

Uzbekistan’s Strategic Pivot: Building a Labour Migration Corridor to the United States

Uzbekistan Labour Migration to United States Strategy

Uzbekistan is pursuing an unexpected strategic pivot away from Russia-dependent labour migration toward the United States, establishing formal bilateral agreements in healthcare, agriculture, and transportation sectors. This initiative reflects both the humanitarian costs of Russian military recruitment and Tashkent's broader effort to diversify institutional relationships beyond post-Soviet frameworks.

ANSPI Climate and Security Desk
June 3, 2026

Independent Insight on Pacific Strategy Advancing Security, Policy, and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Sri Lanka’s Emerging Cybercrime Vulnerability: How Regional Crackdowns Are Reshaping Asia’s Digital Underworld

Xi Jinping’s Return to Pyongyang: Reassessing China-North Korea Strategic Alignment

Tajikistan’s Custody Death Case Exposes Systemic Accountability Gaps in Central Asian Law Enforcement

India’s Gen Z Political Mobilisation: The Jantar Mantar Protests and Modi Government’s Democratic Vulnerabilities

Japan-South Korea Military Cooperation Resumes: Why the SAREX Revival Signals Shifting Indo-Pacific Alignments

Beyond Bipolarity: Managing Great Power Competition Without Global Fragmentation

India’s Commercial Space Sector: How State Support for Deep Tech Startups Reshapes Regional Power Dynamics

South Korea’s Political Continuity: Oh Se-hoon’s Fifth Term as Seoul Mayor and Implications for Democratic Governance

India’s Press Freedom Decline: What Deteriorating Media Independence Signals for Democratic Governance

Uzbekistan’s Strategic Pivot: Building a Labour Migration Corridor to the United States

Japan Edges Toward Hosting Nuclear Weapons : A Historic Shift in East Asia’s Security Doctrine

China Launches Advanced Aircraft Carrier “Fujian” — A New Era in Naval Power Projection

UK Carrier Strike Group Achieves Full Mission Readiness with F-35 Jets Under NATO Command

Young Activists Demand “Full, Fast, Fair Fossil Phase-Out” at COP30

Xerox Launches Unified Cybersecurity Solution for SMBs in Partnership with Palo Alto and The Hartford

Sri Lanka’s Emerging Cybercrime Vulnerability: How Regional Crackdowns Are Reshaping Asia’s Digital Underworld

Xi Jinping’s Return to Pyongyang: Reassessing China-North Korea Strategic Alignment

Tajikistan’s Custody Death Case Exposes Systemic Accountability Gaps in Central Asian Law Enforcement

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