Security
Renewed Arms Race
- Russia and US have recently pulled out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a decision which could trigger the nuclearisation of US and the European continent.
- The new National Security Strategy announced by US in December 2017 declares the “revisionist” China and Russia as a threat to the United States security.
- Russia and China have been developing new age technological nuclear hypersonic missiles aimed at defeating American global missile defence system.
South China Sea (SCS)
- It is a hotbed of contestation between US and China where the US supports SCS riparian states, like Philippines, ....