China’s Water Threats, India’s Malacca Leverage and Growing Indo-Pacific Contestation
While China's leverage over India runs through an upstream river Beijing controls, India's leverage over China runs through a chokepoint India will now sit astride. The Strait of Malacca is a 930-km passage between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra through which an approximate of 40–50 percent of global trade and 80 percent of China's crude oil imports transit.
Is Hamas Expanding Footprint into South Asian Nations, Including Pakistan and Bangladesh?
The presence of Hamas in Bangladesh should not be ignored by security agencies across the region, including those in Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar, as such a presence may ultimately have serious consequences.
India’s Indo‑Pacific Assertion: Act East Policy in Action in Modi Visit
The significance of PM Modi's visits marks a shift from episodic diplomacy to structured engagement. The convergence of defence, economics, and technology across these four partnerships signals a pragmatic foreign policy.
China at the Core of the India-Japan Strategic Partnership
Yet, strategic behavior of both India and China is fundamentally opposed to each other as witnessed in the agreements signed between India and Japan during Takaichi’s visit to India. China views India’s foreign policy as an effort to embed itself in an alliance aimed at containing it.
