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Southeast Asia Can't Get Enough of Israel's Weapons ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Alvite Ningthoujam)

Israeli Elbit Hermes-900 UAV ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Author- Matthieu Sontag) Source- The National Interest Author-  Alvite Ningthoujam Present-day Israeli foreign policy is giving considerable attention to the Southeast Asian countries, namely Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar. In the past few years, there has been a heavy traffic of high-level defense-oriented visits from both sides; as a result, military cooperation has received greater importance. The current state of political ties with the West has brought about this shift in Israel’s foreign policy toward the Asian region, particularly Southeast Asia. Defense relations with India and South Korea are visibly on the upswing, and economic relations with China are strong. As part of Israel’s “Look East” policy, equal importance is given towards strengthening ties with Japan. Although the extent to which both countries can advance their ties in the defense arena is uncertain, cy