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France will continue to work closely with the new US administration irrespective of uncertainty in President-elect Donald Trump's policies.
With prospects of convergence of strategic interests prompted by geopolitical calculations being overshadowed by divergences in social, cultural and p
China isn’t going away any time soon from South Asia. India will have to work overtime — and in concert with like-minded partners.
A year and a half since United States (US) President Joe Biden took the helm, both sides of the country’s political divide continue to debate whether the incumbent’s China policy is distinct from that of the Trump administration. The Republicans claim that Biden’s China policy has not veered away from Trump’s; the Democrats, meanwhile, argue that it is different. This brief weighs in on the debate, and finds that despite the Biden
After President Donald Trump’s 2017 visit to Asia, the Indo-Pacific region assumed greater significance in the United States’ foreign policy calculus, as articulated in the ‘Indo-Pacific Strategy Report’ released by the US Department of Defence. On 31 December 2018, Trump passed the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA), which authorises US$1.5 billion in spending for a range of US programmes in East Asia and Southeast Asia to “develop
Donald Trump’s engagement with the Kashmir issue has a lot to do with his need to secure Pakistan’s backing for his Afghanistan policy.
A hostile relationship with China, coming out of a consistent aggressive trade policy, is arguably going to be the most enduring legacy of the Trump P
The Indian engagement with the US, whether in the form of America’s Indo-Pacific strategy or the four-nation Quad also implies that the regional nat
By some accounts, the economy is doing spectacularly well. At the same time, infrastructure has been deteriorating.
The Indo-US agenda is vast – there are issues to be clinched, points to be clarified and misunderstandings to be cleared.
Not only are the important regional players getting into a huddle to discuss the implications of President Trump’s actions, but are also re-calibrat
The three debates between Clinton and Trump are over and countdown to the big day has started. It has become a much tighter race than it was a week ago
The Indian army’s higher leadership must reflect on its role as the sword arm of the republic, and have a clear vision of itself as the upholder of law.
The confidence of pollsters misled the world in anticipating Hillary to consider her win as a foregone conclusion and did not anticipate the Donald wi
Aware of the economic threat posed by the US, the Chinese president has been pushing for economic reforms.
In what is expected to be a one hour meeting between Trump and Imran, the sort of ambitious agenda that is being talked about appears a little far-fet
While India cannot match China's economic heft which is luring sections of the European political elite, it can entice Europe with the values which it espouses.
India should understand from Trump’s approach that no one is going to pull India’s chestnuts out of the fire for it and treat 'One China' cautiously
What President Trump means for India has already been dissected to the point where adding anything new becomes impossible.
With Trump elected as President of the US, the waning economic order — WTO — is even more under threat and now resembles like the League of Nations of pre-war era.
Both the US and India are on the same side of the fence when dealing with China.
This brief explores the factors informing the Donald Trump administration’s continuity on the US’s defence trade with India. The administration’s impetus to maintain US-India defence trade stems from factors like the ‘reverse revolving door’ policy that has increased the influence of US defence contractors, its ‘Buy American’ policy to boost US arms exports, and defence trade being construed as an incremental means to correct the bi
Bilateral ties between India and the United States have strengthened remarkably in recent years and nowhere has cooperation been greater than in the area of security. Despite certain divergences, both countries realise that there is a need for cooperation in combating terrorism to keep their homelands safe from extremist threats. Ever since the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2014, India has invested political capital in improving
Trump's phone-call to Taiwanese President has led the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson issue a statement calling on the US to adhere to its one-China policy commitment
History is replete with examples of rich people with grand ideas.
