Xi in Washington, India in the Middle: What the Trump–Xi Summit Means for New Delhi
Divyanka Tandon The September 2026 state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington was more than a ceremonial meeting…
Xi’s Military Purge: What It Signals for China, India and Taiwan
Kumar Satish China is simultaneously modernising its military, increasing pressure around Taiwan, expanding its military presence in the Indo-Pacific and…
Xi Jinping in Washington: Can China and the US Move Beyond Confrontation?
The most significant development to emerge from the visit was that China and the United States extended their…
Manufacturing a Crisis: Disinformation, Impersonation, and the Contest Over the BRICS Summit 2026
Diksha Bharti The central argument is that the disinformation around BRICS 2026 was not spontaneous online noise but an event-anchored…
BRICS 2026: How India Turned a Multilateral Summit into a Bilateral Diplomatic Opportunity
The BRICS Summit therefore became not only a platform for collective discussions among member countries but also a…
AI as a Geopolitical Weapon: The New Arms Race Beyond Nuclear Deterrence
Artificial intelligence inverts that logic entirely. It is usable, scalable, exportable, and improvable on a weekly release cycle…
Bridges to Nowhere? The Price of Navigating Nepal’s Twin Hegemons
Hridbina Chatterjee For Nepal, the classical image of a "yam between two boulders" has undergone a profound 21st-century transformation.
Ports, Pipelines and Power: China’s Expanding Footprint in the Indian Ocean
Anusreeta Dutta For the last two decades, Beijing has been systematically expanding its footprint in the Indian Ocean through a…
Beyond Kalapani: What Nepal’s Mediation Proposal Reveals About Himalayan Geopolitics
The Kalapani issue is not just about maps and historical treaties. Now it’s a portal into the geopolitical…
From Kolkata to Beijing: Dhaka’s New Balancing Act
Anjali Singh Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s first official visit to China is a turning point in the geopolitics of…