The Unravelling of CPEC: China’s Strategic Recalibration in Pakistan
Dr Nanda Kishor China’s partial disengagement creates breathing room, but it does not remove the strategic logic of Sino-Pakistani cooperation.
From Periphery to Pivot: How India is Recasting Global Order in the 21st Century
Balaji Subramanian India has emerged as a pivotal actor in the Global South, leveraging its human capital, services sector, and…
Project Sudarshan – Indigenous Innovation Strengthening India’s Defence
Samarth Tripathi India unveiled “Mission Sudarshan Chakra” on August 15, 2025, as a multi-layered nationwide air and missile defence system…
How India’s Oil Refining Power Balanced Global Inflation and Geopolitics
From a minimal capacity in the 1990s, India became the world’s third-largest refiner with 254 MTPA by 2023,…
Structural, Strategic, Future-Oriented: PM Modi’s Japan Visit Redefines Bilateral Ties
Tejashree P V Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Japan has reaffirmed that India–Japan relations are no longer symbolic; they are structural,…
Equal or Nothing: Why America Must Respect India’s Rise
What Washington often fails to understand is that India is not merely a rising economy or a military…
SCO Summit in Tianjin: Multipolarity in Motion
Raghvendra Tripathi The 2025 SCO Summit in Tianjin, China, is especially notable given the current rise in global tensions. It…
Tianjin Calculus: PM Modi’s Balancing Act Between Xi, Trump, and Strategic Autonomy
Pritam Sarbabidya Geopolitics is about shades of grey, where a nation’s strategic autonomy is not the absence of relationships but…
The Dragon and the Elephant Tango – India–China Strategic Alignment in the Shadow of Trump’s Tariff Hegemony
Sindhuri Sai Trump’s tariff war, intended to isolate China and pressure India, instead pushed the two Asian rivals into a…
Weaponising the Brahmaputra: Medog Dam and China’s Hydropower Leverage
Medog grants China the ability to shape outcomes in India’s Northeast and Bangladesh without firing a shot. For…