Pakistan’s army chief is cosying up to Donald Trump
The field marshal is also tightening his grip on power at home. Read More Here
Tag: South Asia
What Kind of Great Power Will India Be?
Debating New Delhi’s grand strategy. Read More Here
How Chinese scientists fought for 74 years to build most powerful dam on Earth – and won
Beijing has launched the massive Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in southern Tibet after decades of scientific research. Read More Here
Ten Years Of Modi’s Foreign Policy: Aspiration Meets Self-Assurance
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal involvement in the realm of external relations that has accorded India a unique place in contemporary international affairs today. Read More Here
The Global Leadership India Needs
For decades, Indian governments have focused on domestic issues like economic growth. But with China encroaching on its territory, Pakistan allying with the Chinese, and its eastern neighbors struggling with economic and political crises, India must take a leading role in ensuring regional stability. Read More Here
The Bay Of Bengal Could Be Key To A Free And Open Indo-Pacific
Within the Indo-Pacific theater, the Bay of Bengal — situated at the intersection between South and Southeast Asia — is a divider, a connector, and one of the prime battlegrounds. Read More Here
As India And China Compete, Smaller States Are Cashing In
India’s structural dominance in the region long fostered a sense of insecurity among these smaller states. The rise of China offered a new alternative to India’s position in the region. Sri Lanka and the Maldives have relatively quickly embraced a policy of strategic autonomy and diversification. Read More Here
To Understand Afghanistan’s Future, Reckon With The Region’s Colonial Past
Before the Radcliffe Line, there was the Durand Line. The British, having seized territory from Afghanistan during the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878-80 and annexed it to British India, dispatched Mortimer Durand to formalize those gains with a treaty in 1893. Read More Here
India Must Rethink Strategy Against China’s Expansion
As India continues to be ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, its preoccupation with containing that disease has provided China with a golden opportunity to alter the region’s geopolitical architecture discreetly but effectively. Thus New Delhi must recalibrate its national and regional policies to address the deepening fault lines in South Asia. Read Here | Asia […]
The Pandemic Stalls Growth In Global Middle Class, Pushes Poverty Up Sharply
A new Pew Research Center analysis finds that the global middle class encompassed 54 million fewer people in 2020 than the number projected prior to the onset of the pandemic. Meanwhile, the number of poor is estimated to have been 131 million higher because of the recession. The drop-off in the global middle class was […]
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