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Sidharth RaimedhiThePrint |
Ahead of BRICS, China appears to be signalling that deeper economic ties will require assurances that border disputes will not put its companies’...
A strategic culture that puts a premium on assertion and displays of strength may have been more counterproductive than beneficial to Indian interests...
India is being written out of core contingencies – Taiwan and the South China Sea.
A peculiar feature of the Indian security state is the frequency with which failures to anticipate enemy action are explained away as 'intelligence...
Given the challenges, risks, costs, time-insensitivity, and unguaranteed success, it will not be surprising if enthusiasm about the blockade declines...
After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage...
Indian power projection and influence will greatly depend on the choices of small powers — or partner countries — that exercise great agency...
India has indicated several times that it makes decisions to purchase oil from Russia based on commercial reasons and not geopolitics.
Do India and China share a strategic or geopolitical alignment? Are there signs of improving relations in this aspect? Yet again, the evidence points...
India appears to have gone from occupying a near-perfect geopolitical sweet spot to now inhabiting a geopolitical no-good-option deadlock.
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.
Dialogue between American India watchers and Indian strategic community is broken. It is marked by ‘hot takes’ rather than a sustained...