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Taking Stock of India-China Relations: Structural Divergences and the Limits of Diplomacy
President Xi Jinping’s latest visit to New Delhi to participate in the BRICS summit in September 2026, his first visit to India in seven years, came in the wake of increasing speculation of a recent thaw in India-China relations. This…
U.S.-China Détente? Implications for India
U.S. President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in mid-May, with the two principals slated to meet several more times this year. For any country, relations between these two powers are incredibly consequential; for India, with China…
ہمہ موسمی سے ہمہ گیری تک: پاک-چین خلائی تعاون اور جنوبی ایشیائی سلامتی
پاک-چین تعلقات، جو’’نہ ٹوٹنے والے اورمضبوط‘‘ ہیں، اب زمین، سمندر اور ہوا کے دوائرِکار سے بڑھ کر خلائی مدار تک پھیلتے نظر آ رہے ہیں، جو اتحادوں کو مضبوط کرنے اور طاقت کے مظاہرے کے لیے ایک اہم میدان بنتا…
From All-Weather to All-Domain: China-Pakistan Space Cooperation and South Asian Security
The “unbreakable and rock-solid” China-Pakistan relationship appears to be extending beyond the land, sea, and air domains into orbital space, an increasingly critical arena for embedding alliances and projecting power. From the launch of Pakistan’s Badar-1 satellite in 1990, space…
Colombo Port City and the Diminishing Scope of Sri Lankan Policy Autonomy
Colombo Port City began as a promise of transformation, but it has become a measure of Sri Lanka’s constrained autonomy. Built on 269 hectares of reclaimed land beside Colombo’s central business district, the Chinese-backed project is designed as a Special…
After the Four-Day War: Defense Adaptation and Strategic Realignment Across South Asia
The May 2025 conflict between India and Pakistan lasted less than a week, but its aftershocks are still coursing through the region. The crisis saw the region's first live combat test of Chinese-manufactured J-10C fighters, PL-15 beyond-visual-range (BVR) missiles, and…