Who Controls the Flow? Water, Power and the Future of South Asian Diplomacy
Archita Gaur The challenge is no longer limited to how much water countries receive, but increasingly concerns who controls the…
China’s One-China Policy Meets Resistance in Belize and Paraguay
Anjali Singh The decision by China to impose sanctions against the foreign ministers of Belize and Paraguay over their diplomatic…
Europe’s China Policy Shift: Trade Diversion and India’s Manufacturing Challenge
Parag Gilada The European Union arrives in the Chinese capital with a mission to compel Beijing to take concrete measures…
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.