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#IndoPac #MaritimeSecurity #Defence #MDA #StarboardDefence #NZDefence

Why India Needs China, and China Needs India in Return India and China share a complicated relationship. The world’s two most populous nations are outright regional rivals who fought a border war in the 1960s. Relations have been at a low point since bord...

India and China have growing economic ties. China has an assortment of critical technology and materials that India needs to fuel its manufacturing ambitions. China also sees an important new consumer market in India’s growing middle class. #IndoPac
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

King said the conversation about regular training was at an initial stage. Separate to this, there was discussion about having US soldiers train in New Zealand in the coming 12 to 18 months.

#defensenews #indopac

"Had interests"
Like what, its own territories, citizens, EEZ ?
France is an #IndoPac country.
Not an external player.

Over 6,000 N. Korean troops killed or injured in Ukraine war: British defense ministry | Yonhap News Agency SEOUL, June 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is estimated to have sustained more than 6,000 casu...

"...total casualties amount to more than half of the approximately 11,000 DPRK troops initially deployed to the Kursk region... almost certainly been sustained primarily through large, highly attritional dismounted assaults."

m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

#northkorea #ukrainewar #dprk #indopac

Fiji, France forge new security ties

"Fiji has become the first Pacific Island country to receive advanced surveillance drones from the Government of France."

www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/fiji-fr...

#fiji #maritimesecurity #indopacific #indopac #pacificislands #foreignpolicy #defensenews

Download: Indo-Pacific 5x5 - May 13th print-ready edition

• At-a-glance snapshots of 5 items
• Clickable QRs for on-device reading
• Scannable QRs for articles from hardcopy

drive.proton.me/urls/GWTN5DF...

#indopac #asiapac #currentaffairs #defensenews #asean

#Coquillages #indoPac : publication ce jour de la fiche-Espèce de la troque-fraise.

MATEJCEKOVA Miroslava, LE GRANCHÉ Philippe in: #DORIS, 09/05/2025 :
Clanculus pharaonius (Linnaeus, 1758), doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/5...

#Mollusca #biodiversite #Gastropoda #Trochida #redSea #biodiversity #shells

C'est un #poisson tropical à forme un peu bizarre qui arrive sur le site : le poisson-vache à épine dorsale.
🐮

PREUX Christophe, MODRAK Gaël in : #DORIS, 21/01/2025 :
Lactoria fornasini (Bianconi, 1846), doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/2...

#biodiversite #Vertebrata #Teleostei #Ostraciidae #IndoPac

Well, this may be of interest....

#boardgames #military #IndoPac #Australia

Just not QUITE ready for our Building Blocks program...

Une espèce de #poisson rarement observée car nocturne arrive sur DORIS : le cardinal-fantôme luxuriant.

BOURJON Philippe, SITTLER Alain-Pierre in : #DORIS, 20/11/2024:
Nectamia luxuria Fraser, 2008, doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/5...

#biodiversite #IndoPac #Apogonidae #Teleostei #Vertébrés #fishes

There'll be LC:Indo news later this week for people on our mailing list.

It MAY have to do with #Steam #computergames and @microprose.bsky.social ...but that's only a guess.

#boardgames #military #indopac

LC:Indo-Pac and LC:Wood are still due to arrive this month--expected in 9-10 days actually.

#Marines #wargames #politics #Indopac #boardgames

At the minute, the alleged need for India's support in the #IndoPac shields a tumescent hypocrisy amongst Western powers regarding India's path to ethnic cleansing and genocide.