{"id":26869,"date":"2025-11-30T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26869"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:18:04","slug":"asia-power-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asia-power-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Power Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Asia Power Index Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, India has secured third ranking in the Asia Power Index 2025, while the U.S. and China occupy the first and second spots.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Asia Power Index<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is published annually by the Australia-based think tank, <\/span><b>Lowy Institute.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It assesses the <\/span><b>ability of nations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, particularly of those in the Asian continent<\/span><b>, to influence their external environment.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the seventh edition which evaluates the power of <\/span><b>27 countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and territories across Asia, based on <\/span><b>131 indicators across eight thematic measures,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including Military Capability and Defence Networks, Economic Capability and Relationships, <\/span><b>Diplomatic and Cultural Influence and <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Resilience and Future Resources.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Highlights of Asia Power Index 2025<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India ranks third for two measures: economic<\/span><b> capability and future resources.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s economic and military capability have both increased in the 2025 edition of the Asia Power Index.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India&#8217;s weakest measure is defence networks, where it sits at 11th.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India&#8217;s economy has continued to grow strongly and made small gains in terms of its geopolitical relevance &#8211; defined in terms of international leverage, connectivity, and technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/india-secures-third-rank-in-asia-power-index-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News On Air<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia Power Index by Lowy Institute ranks 27 Asian nations using 131 indicators to assess military, economic, diplomatic, cultural and future influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":75948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3957,21,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-26869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-asia-power-index","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}