By APCSS Editor|2026-05-04T07:35:25-10:00May 4, 2026|
The Japan-France Summit in Tokyo on April 1, 2026, was more than a diplomatic formality. When Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi toured the cleanrooms of Astroscale—the Tokyo-headquartered dual-use technology leader founded by Mitsunobu Okada—she was conducting a high-stakes site visit of [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-04-10T15:12:04-10:00April 10, 2026|
Summary Saying no to an ABO request feels like sovereignty protection. It rarely is. Refusal produces immediate gains on territorial and reputational dimensions while generating delayed, compounding costs on decisional and political ones. By the time those costs surface, [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-04-03T12:48:00-10:00April 1, 2026|
The Material Foundation In March 2026, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby outlined Washington’s approach to the U.S.-India defense partnership at the Ananta Centre in New Delhi. The framework was direct: the United States seeks partnerships with vigorous, [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-03-27T13:35:20-10:00March 27, 2026|
To fully understand Indo-Pacific dynamics, it is necessary to examine China's growing influence outside the Indo-Pacific. China's global strategy extends far beyond its immediate sphere, leveraging economic investments, infrastructure development, and diplomatic engagement to establish footholds in these strategically [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-03-27T12:18:00-10:00March 27, 2026|
Authors Benjamin Ryan, PhD MPH REHS, FRRHHed1; Deon Canyon, PhD, DBA, MPH, FACTM2; Raelene Lockhorst, GAICD, MA, GradDipIntRel, GradCertDefStud 3; Len Notaras AO, Bmed, LLB, BA (Hons), Dip Com, MHA4 Professor, Frist College of Medicine, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-03-24T11:06:57-10:00March 24, 2026|
Critical minerals processing remains concentrated in few hands across the Indo-Pacific, mirroring historical patterns from Europe's potato dependency to twentieth-century oil geopolitics. The question is whether dependencies formed through efficiency are recognized before disruption forces awareness. ---------------------------------------------- Strategic vulnerabilities [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-03-12T13:14:07-10:00March 12, 2026|
Summary A foreign minister signing an access, basing, and overflight (ABO) agreement without a clear account of what sovereignty he is trading is making a decision he cannot fully evaluate. Sovereignty in the ABO context operates across four distinct [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-03-09T16:16:28-10:00March 9, 2026|
Port Louis | 28 February 2026: Mauritius suspended diplomatic relations with the Maldives after Malé rejected Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago and objected to the UK–Mauritius transfer agreement. A dispute long expanding beneath the surface has now broken [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-03-03T17:05:38-10:00March 3, 2026|
Executive Summary The Indo-Pacific is not approaching a cognitive war. It is already inside one. China’s systematic cognitive operations, grounded in People’s Liberation Army political warfare doctrine and operationally integrated with economic and diplomatic coercion, are actively targeting the [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-02-26T16:38:43-10:00February 26, 2026|
Executive Summary Strategic miscalculation, rather than deliberate escalation, is increasingly recognized as the dominant risk in contemporary security competition. Gray-zone coercion, administrative normalization, ambiguous signaling, and delayed consequence create environments in which capable organizations may act coherently, adapt repeatedly, [...]
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