India
BRICS Summit in New Delhi Shows Both the Promise and Limits of a Multipolar World
The BRICS summit in New Delhi has produced exactly the kind of image India wanted: Narendra Modi hosting Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Masoud Pezeshkian and leaders from across the Global South, with Xi visiting India…
India and China Resume Border Talks as Relations Continue Cautious Thaw
India and China are continuing their cautious attempt to repair relations after six years in which the Line of Actual Control (LAC) transformed from a manageable disagreement into one of Asia’s most dangerous military frontiers.
India Overtakes Japan to Become World’s Fourth-Largest Economy
India has reached a symbolic economic milestone: on current IMF projections, its nominal GDP is moving past Japan’s, making India the world’s fourth-largest economy behind the United States, China and Germany, with the prospect of…
India-Pakistan Water Dispute Deepens as Indus Treaty Becomes Strategic Leverage
The latest India-Pakistan crisis is moving beyond terrorism and military retaliation into something potentially more structural: water. India continues to hold the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance following the April 2025 Pahalgam terrorist attack,…
India and Pakistan Face New Crisis After Kashmir Attack
India and Pakistan are again facing a dangerous deterioration in relations after a major militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir triggered accusations, military alerts and increasingly confrontational rhetoric across the border. New Delhi has linked…
India and EU Sign Historic Trade Deal After Nearly Two Decades of Negotiations
India and the European Union have signed a long-awaited free trade agreement after negotiations stretching, with interruptions, across almost two decades. The agreement links an Indian economy of more than 1.4 billion people with the…
Iran War Forces India to Confront the Cost of Strategic Dependence
The Iran war is beginning to expose a vulnerability India has spent years trying to manage but cannot eliminate quickly: a country can be strategically autonomous in its diplomacy while remaining deeply dependent economically on…
Iran War Drives Oil Above $100 as Strait of Hormuz Crisis Deepens
Two weeks into the US-Israel war with Iran, the conflict is beginning to move from a Middle Eastern military crisis into a global economic shock. Fighting and disruption around the Strait of Hormuz have severely…
Xi, Putin and Modi Just Stood Together in China. The Image Matters Because the World Is No Longer Dividing Neatly Into an American Bloc and an Anti-American One.
China has spent the past week making a very deliberate argument about the international system it wants to build. At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, Xi Jinping hosted leaders including Vladimir Putin and…
Trump’s Tariffs Are Becoming Permanent. The World Is Not Returning to the Old Free-Trade System.
Donald Trump’s tariff experiment is beginning to look less like a temporary negotiating tactic and more like the foundation of a new American trade system. On 31 July, Trump signed an executive order setting revised…
Thailand and Cambodia Are Fighting Over Their Border. It Is a Reminder That a Line Drawn More Than a Century Ago Can Still Become More Politically Valuable Than the Land Around It.
Thailand and Cambodia are now experiencing their worst military confrontation in more than a decade. Fighting erupted on 24 July along their disputed frontier and rapidly expanded across several locations, with artillery, rockets and ground…
India Struck Pakistan. Pakistan Responded. Then Both Sides Stopped. The Most Important Question Is Whether This Was Successful Deterrence or Another Turn of an Escalation Cycle.
The crisis that began with the 22 April Pahalgam attack has now crossed into direct military confrontation between India and Pakistan and, at least for the moment, returned from it. In the early hours of…
