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Xi can seek a broader India reset at BRICS Summit. Border will determine what comes next

Ahead of BRICS, China appears to be signalling that deeper economic ties will require assurances that border disputes will not put its companies’...

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Appeasement has a bad name in India. Time is ripe to use it in foreign policy

A strategic culture that puts a premium on assertion and displays of strength may have been more counterproductive than beneficial to Indian interests...

18.08.2026 30

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Is the consensus around Indo-Pacific changing? The divergence has been long time coming

India is being written out of core contingencies – Taiwan and the South China Sea.

23.06.2026 30

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India just doesn’t want to go into the real reasons behind wars. It’s our blind spot

A peculiar feature of the Indian security state is the frequency with which failures to anticipate enemy action are explained away as 'intelligence...

13.05.2026 50

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US negotiating position is brute force. Iran’s is the power to hurt

Given the challenges, risks, costs, time-insensitivity, and unguaranteed success, it will not be surprising if enthusiasm about the blockade declines...

13.04.2026 50

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A new Indian foreign policy consensus is emerging. That India isn’t a great power yet

After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage...

15.01.2026 80

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What India needs to learn from the Ayni airbase setback

Indian power projection and influence will greatly depend on the choices of small powers — or partner countries — that exercise great agency...

19.11.2025 40

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Is India recalibrating Russian oil import strategy? Saudi Arabia discount offer is key

India has indicated several times that it makes decisions to purchase oil from Russia based on commercial reasons and not geopolitics.

17.09.2025 40

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India-China ties aren’t improving. They’re actually getting worse

Do India and China share a strategic or geopolitical alignment? Are there signs of improving relations in this aspect? Yet again, the evidence points...

28.08.2025 40

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How India lost its geopolitical sweet spot in the world

India appears to have gone from occupying a near-perfect geopolitical sweet spot to now inhabiting a geopolitical no-good-option deadlock.

05.08.2025 50

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India is showing signs of trusting China again. Beijing sees a window of weakness

India’s episodic tactical pivots towards better ties with China to enhance its bargaining position vis-à-vis the US are not new or unfamiliar.

29.07.2025 40

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Why is South Asia strategic studies declining in US? All alignment, no depth

Dialogue between American India watchers and Indian strategic community is broken. It is marked by ‘hot takes’ rather than a sustained...

08.07.2025 50

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