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OPINION | How Australia can work with France in the western Indian Ocean
The western Indian Ocean – home to the island states of Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles and Comoros, as well as the French territories of La Reunion...
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OPINION | To balance the Quad equation, India and Australia must drive an “Indo” focus
For all the attention given to the Quad, the grouping itself has devoted limited time to the Indian Ocean – the “Indo” part of the Indo-Pacific region....
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OPINION | Of submarines and nuclear umbrellas
Late in 2022—a year of war, pandemic, climatic disaster, and attempted nuclear coercion—a number of news outlets published a photograph of a rare event....
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OPINION | The curious case of Blenheim Reef
A remote sandbank in the middle of the Indian Ocean, known as Blenheim Reef, is hitting the international news. The Mauritian government has sponsored...
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OPINION | Maldives embroiled in Mauritius‑UK tussle over Chagos
For decades, Mauritius and the United Kingdom have been in a dispute over ownership of the Chagos Islands in the central Indian Ocean. Recently, Maldives...
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OPINION | Building a new maritime surveillance network across the Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is an increasingly contested strategic environment. A growing Chinese naval presence raises the prospect that Beijing may seek to challenge...
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OPINION | Agalega: A glimpse of India’s remote island military base
The small, remote Mauritian island of North Agalega, located in the south-western Indian Ocean, 1,122 kilometres north of Mauritius, is currently a...
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OPINION | The power of example: America’s presence in Diego Garcia
In remarks delivered at the US State Department in early February, President Joe Biden championed the rule of law as part of “America’s abiding advantage”...
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FEATURE | The strategic consequence of the Chagos Islands legal dispute
[caption id="attachment_68854" align="alignnone" width=""]Diego Garcia[/caption]At the end of last month, the African archipelago nation of Mauritius...
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