China's muscle has forced India to rethink its maritime strategy

While India watches with concern Sri Lanka’s deepening political crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is boldly visiting the Maldives on the day its...

Sri Lanka - Democracy in Danger

A Concert of Indo-Pacific Democracies

We need a rules-based Indo-Pacific

Belt And Roadblocks: India’s China stance vindicated

Belt and roadblocks: India’s stance vindicated as China’s grandiose BRI plans run into resistance

Belt and roadblocks: India’s stance vindicated as China’s grandiose BRI plans run into resistance

Sierra Leone has become the latest country to scrap a Belt and Road (BRI) project, cancelling a $318 million airport deal with China. After smooth...

The linchpins for a rules-based Indo-Pacific

The Great Asian Game-Changer: Why PM Modi's Tokyo visit could cement a Japan-India strategic alliance

Pakistan’s double game stymies Afghan peace

Natural allies

An intense pace of top-level meetings in recent months has sought to reduce Sino-Indian and Sino-Japanese tensions. The Beijing summit between ...

Why Mike Pence is playing bad cop against China

Pakistan's double game stymies Afghan peace

The US war in Afghanistan has already lasted more than twice as long as World War II, exacting a staggering cost in blood and treasure. With the...

The End of America’s China Fantasy

Maldives: India should not rest on its oars

Maldives: India should not rest on its oars

Following President Abdulla Yameen’s surprise defeat in the Maldivian election, the air of self-congratulation in New Delhi risks obscuring the...

The Beijing backlash begins

Ambitious but short on transparency

No easy escape from Afghan war for Trump

Backlash against China could jeopardize its ‘free ride’

The China Backlash

Better late than never. But why was India fumbling against Pakistan?

Pakistan has turned into the Mecca of international terrorism even as its new prime minister, Imran “Taliban” Khan, has promised to make his...

India fumbles against a rogue neighbour

Beijing loses a battle in the Maldives -- but the fight for influence goes on

China expands its control in South China Sea

Only by asserting its Indus leverage can India hope to end Pakistan’s unconventional war

Only by asserting its Indus leverage can India hope to end Pakistan's unconventional...

In foreign policy, it is important for national leadership to choose its rhetoric carefully and back its words with at least modest action. Words not...

Why the Nepali communist challenge to India is deadly

Nepali communist challenge

Nepal is a state symbiotically tied to India. Yet, today it has an openly pro-China communist government that is hostile to India. The number of...

A Global Environmental Threat Made in China

Washington must address Indian concerns over the effects of its new sanctions on Iran and Russia

Washington must address Indian concerns over the effects of its new sanctions on...

The US has emerged as India’s most important partner. The inaugural India-US two-plus-two ministerial dialogue will help highlight the growing...

A Global Environmental Threat Made in China

Divided Asean spins its wheels as great powers become back-seat drivers in Southeast Asia

India's Regional Renaissance

Thanks to Chinese expansionism, the South China Sea has become Asean's Achilles heel

A New Order for the Indo-Pacific

How Donald Trump is compounding India’s foreign-policy challenges

Complicating India-US ties

US President Donald Trump’s first round of Iran-related sanctions has come into force this week, with no waiver for India in sight as yet. The US...

Why India shouldn’t rush into engaging with the new Imran-led Pakistan

Why India shouldn't rush into engaging with the new Imran-led Pakistan

It has taken the Pakistani military a full year to complete the soft coup it launched when it used a pliant judiciary to oust an elected prime...

US sanctions policy risks alienating India

Trump’s Grand Strategy

Why Korea Courts India: India gains importance for Moon as Korea’s ‘miracle economy’ starts to face new challenges

South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s visits to India and Singapore this week underscore his “New Southern Policy” (NSP), which gives priority to...

India’s mistakes have allowed China to make inroads into Nepal

India's mistakes have allowed China to make inroads into Nepal

Nepal’s new communist prime minister, KP Oli, has paid obeisance in Beijing, where he agreed to the proposal to extend the railway from Shigatse in...

How the U.S.-Pyongyang hotline sidelines China

By camouflaging stealth aggression as defence, China offers a Hobson's choice of suffering territorial loss or facing a costly war

How China Will Benefit from North Korea’s Denuclearization Process

Why China is worried

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stepped up his effort to ease his fraught relationship with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un by hosting him for the ...