Comments & Briefs

How Vulnerable are Kinmen and Matsu Islands?

The probability of a standalone Chinese military action to seize Taiwan’s outlying islands—Kinmen and Matsu—is very low.

June 23, 2025

Prashant Kumar Singh

Special Feature

Trump’s Immigration Policies: An Assessment

President Donald Trump’s immigration policies are in the limelight, given the first full-scale protests against these policies that have erupted in Los Angeles.

June 23, 2025

Khyati Singh

IDSA Comments

DF-31AG Test and PLA Rocket Forces’ Nuclear Choices

The September 2024 DF-31AG test showed to some extent the success of the efforts aimed at the streamlining of the priorities of the Rocket Forces.

June 18, 2025

M.S. Prathibha

Issue Brief

Ethiopia’s Russian Gambit: A Solution or a Failing Strategy?

Ethiopia has reached out to Russia to strengthen defence ties amidst multiple internal conflicts.

June 18, 2025

Abhishek Mishra , Abyssinia Abay Mengistu

IDSA Comments

The Bibi–Sisi Rift: Threat to Camp David Accords

Multiple factors, including Egypt’s increasingly close ties with China, Russia and Turkiye, are threatening to derail the 1978 Camp David Accords.

June 13, 2025

Adil Rasheed

Issue Brief

South Korea Elects Lee Jae-myung as President: Challenges Ahead

Lee Jae-myung’s election as South Korea’s President has ended the period of political instability that began with the imposition of martial law in December 2024.

June 11, 2025

Prashant Kumar Singh

IDSA Comments