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April 13, 2023: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Japan Center, was interviewed by Aktuellt on Macron’s statement: Lars Vargö calls the statement “remarkable” and says it risks undermining the United States’ position in Asia. Vargö says that the threats of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan are real and that an invasion could escalate into […]

April 13, 2023: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by the Swedish news agency TT on China’s military exercise around Taiwan during Easter. “The exercise may be over, but the pressure on Taiwan is not,” says Niklas Swanström. “However, I don’t think it’s necessarily the big island in Taiwan that will be attacked, but […]

April 13, 2023: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on what it is like to come to Japan as a foreigner. In the podcast episode, Swedish author Frans Wachtmeister is interviewed about his book “Territoriella anspråk”. Moreover, it features an interview with Japan’s Ambassador to Sweden, Masaki Noke. Japanpodden is a Swedish-language podcast about everything related […]

April 12, 2023: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed in Yle’s podcast “Nyhetspodden” on China and Taiwan. “While the West focuses on Russia’s brutal lust for power, the Chinese dragon is hungry for more power. China’s growing influence in East Asia worries neighbors like Taiwan and Japan, who fear they are next in line. […]

April 12, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed by the Epoch Times on China using a multi-pronged approach to subjugate the UN’s foreign policy agendas. “As a P-5 country of the UN Security Council, China has always taken the advantage of its position to use […]

April 12, 2023: Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy, an Associated Research Fellow at ISDP, was quoted in BBC Chinese on the joint visit of Macron and von der Leyen to China. Macron and von der Leyen’s visit to China – which was supposed to demonstrate European unity – has instead shown a confident EU leader and an […]

April 11, 2023: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by France 24 on how a long NATO delay spells trouble for Sweden and the alliance. “If NATO doesn’t deliver on Sweden becoming a member, then NATO will appear weakened,” said Anna Wieslander. Lingering divisions could ultimately affect how NATO supports Ukraine, she […]

April 11, 2023: The latest issue from the “India-Sweden Strategic Compass” is now available. The Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, the ‘India-Sweden Strategic Compass’. The newsletter focuses on current affairs, highlighting Sweden and India relations, India-Nordic relations, EU-India relations, domestic developments in India, and relevant international updates. The latest […]

April 5, 2023: The Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the ISDP received Mr. Sanjay Verma, Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs in the Government of India, and Mr. Tanmaya Lal, Indian Ambassador to Sweden and Latvia on April 4, 2023. Other Indian Embassy officials in Sweden joined the […]

April 4, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, discussed the continuing tensions in the Taiwan Strait in DD INDIA. You can watch the full discussion on DD INDIA’s YouTube channel.