Experts have even called for Japan to deepen bilateral security cooperation with India, Britain and France, countries that have shown a new resoluteness towards Chinese actions in the Indo-Pacific.
What Lula’s Win Mean for BRICS and 'De-Dollarization'
Lula’s re-election spared BRICS from an internal fracture at a moment when energy routes are contested and financial dependence carries higher costs. As Trump pressures countries back into Washington’s orbit, Lula’s Brazil keeps one of the few organized efforts toward currency diversification from stalling.
India–Pakistan: When Politics and Economics Work at Cross-Purposes
Trade cannot substitute for peace, and people-to-people relationships cannot resolve territorial disputes. But preserving economic and social channels of communication can prevent political disagreements from becoming a permanent condition of societal separation.
India–South America Trade: Opportunities and Challenges in a Changing Global Economy
Given India's high dependence on imported oil, these circumstances encourage greater engagement with South American producers such as Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Guyana. The increase in Indian imports of Venezuelan oil during the current year provides a clear example, following a period in which imports from this country had been practically discontinued.
Strong Defence Ties, Yet Limited Trade: The India–Vietnam Economic Puzzle
One highlight is VinFast, Vietnam's electric vehicle producer, announcing an investment commitment of US$500 million for a manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu in south India. The company has also engaged its Indian supply chain with more than 300 local suppliers, aligning with the host country’s domestic industrialization agenda.
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Beijing keeps tight rein on its media as its seeks global information dominance with sophisticated propaganda tools
No country comes close to China’s sophisticated influence-seeking tools and the way it leverages its soft power. The relentless pursuit by Chinese propagandists, out to stake their claim on the global information order, are challenges that the independent global information order needs to meet.
Japanese supply chain resilience to decouple from China: Is India the new bet for Japanese investors?
The launching of supply chain resilience in the Indo-Pacific region is another attribute of the rising interest in India. India’s strong leadership in the region evokes new opportunities to reap benefits from its low-cost hub, laden with high IT technology.
India, France and UAE form new trilateral grouping focused on Indo-Pacific security
Colonna tweeted in French that it was the “launch of a new trilateral format in the #Indo-Pacific zone with India and the Emirates“ with “a common ambition to move forward in 4 areas: #security and #defence, #Climate, #Technologies and people(-to-people) exchanges”.
Is China worried over closer Dhaka-New Delhi ties? Unlikely
Professor Thussu says, ”Although New Delhi remains a traditional friend of Dhaka, the growing presence of China in Bangladesh and elsewhere in South Asia, makes it difficult for Hasina to prioritize India over China: the scale and depth of Chinese investment, aid etc. can’t be matched by India.”
Is China's tightening grip over Malaysia and region a threat to Western security order?
In this regard, both ASEAN and Malaysia seem to have lost their appeal to the West for a deeper security foothold, with Washington realising that the current situation of the region's pandering to Beijing makes it difficult for the US to establish rooted military alliances and placement of strategic anti-missile capacities, among others
The curious case of Indian silence over damning UN human rights report on China
Not surprisingly, India has not come out with any condemnation of China for its atrocities in Xinjiang, a classic example of India in recent times trying to steer clear of global contestations
A strategic shift? Lessons for India from the Dragon's Taiwan fury
It will be for the first time that the Pentagon is getting involved in a high-altitude exercise with Indian troops, a fact that will not go unnoticed in Beijing. Is staging these combat drills so close to the disputed region indicative of a strategic shift on the part of New Delhi?
A long tactical mind game has begun for control of Indo Pacific
A new, long and potentially ugly physical and mind games have begun, where conventional and tactical firepower alone would not guarantee long term success and acceptance
Post Taiwan crisis, China gets edgy over Tibet and Himalayan security
With no diplomatic ties with Bhutan, prevailing border tensions with India and a changing geo-strategic sphere in Nepal, China's Himalayan neighbourhood security is critically tied to safeguarding Tibet
The Chinese ‘spy’ ship that raised Indian eyebrows; and this may not be the last
Ever since Sri Lanka leased Hambantota port to China, both India and the US have flagged their concerns that this may eventually lead to it becoming a hub for the PLA Navy in the Indian Ocean
India remains a strategic bulwark in checking China’s rising power
Both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh remain crucial in the eyes of New Delhi and Washington in denying further incursions by Beijing, underscored by the scramble for reassertion of American influence and ties with both nations
A must-read book for scholars and others to understand India-China dynamics
One particular observation that gets highlighted, although not explicitly stated as such by the author, is the huge clout and influence wielded by some key diplomats and political advisers who seem to have literally hijacked the formulation of policy and response to this, complex relationship during the Nehru years
China's strategic missteps can have dangerous consequences for Indo Pacifc region
Beijing should be wise enough in realizing the dangerous impact of its using pugnacious responses to Pelosi’s visit that can risk greater backfiring from its strategic adversaries in the future
With eye on China, India's armed forces incorporate AI systems in three services
In view of China’s build-up all along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) till Arunachal Pradesh, it is just as well that India is pursuing efforts to equip its armed forces with AI-backed systems
