Philippine-India Defense Relations: From Good to Great
Amparo Pamela Fabe
National Police College, Philippines
Key Highlights
- As a way to expand Philippine-India defense relations, there needs to be more engagement and collaboration, particularly in the area of Underwater Maritime Domain Awareness.
- The Philippines can rely on India for enhanced maritime cooperation agreements in the form of Underwater Maritime Domain Awareness partnerships and technology exchange.
The Philippines is both an archipelagic and a maritime nation that relies on the stability of maritime commerce and global trade. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. expressed his intention to elevate the ties between the Philippines and India’s bilateral relations amid the current geopolitical conditions during his meeting with Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita. The Philippines and India marked the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations last November 16, 2024.
“The interactions between India and the Philippines have certainly increased in the past few years. And certainly we would like to continue that closeness.” “Well, the plan to elevate the bilateral relations is very interesting because in terms of geopolitical issues. Whereas we used to speak of Pacific or Asia Pacific. It’s now Indo-Pacific. And that’s why I think that the alliances and the partnerships that we make become more important, ” President Marcos told Minister Margherita during their meeting at Malacanang Palace (Presidential Communications Office, January 15, 2025).
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Amparo Pamela Fabe
National Police College, Philippines
Amparo Pamela Fabe, a Professor of the National Police College, Philippines, is a maritime security researcher on the Indo-Pacific. She is a Fellow of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, the Brute Krulak Center, US Marine Corps University, the Irregular Warfare Initiative of the the US Military Academy at Westpoint and the Empirical Studies of Conflict at Princeton University and the Centre of Policing and International Security, University of South Wales. Her expertise covers maritime domain awareness, cognitive warfare, counterterrorist financing, preventing/countering violent extremism, and project monitoring and evaluation. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Indonesian Police Agency. She can be reached at mimi.fabe@gmail.com