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India’s 2024-2025 Defense Budget: Incremental Progress at Best
Last month, India and China reached an agreement to disengage from their military standoff on the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh and conduct coordinated patrols along friction points. Despite this disengagement, however, India needs to invest in its…
Trump 2.0: Implications for South Asia
The speculation and excitement around the U.S. election has ended with the victory of Republican candidate, Donald J. Trump. For the first time in over a 100 years, a candidate has become president after being voted out of office once…
Trump 2.0 Could Recalibrate U.S. Indo-Pacific Engagements
The just-concluded U.S. election was a dramatic showdown in more ways than one, leaving observers on edge as both a Republican and a Democratic win seemed equally plausible. Ultimately, Donald Trump clinched an unexpectedly decisive victory, securing both the popular…
Maldives-India Rapprochement: Of Economic Pressures and Strategic Rebalancing
After almost a year of antagonistic rhetoric toward India and a shift toward China, the Maldives appears to be taking steps to mend and strengthen its traditional ties with New Delhi. On August 26, a high-level delegation from the Indian…
Why BIMSTEC’s Maritime Transport Agreement is Essential for India
India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, recently hosted the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Foreign Ministers’ retreat in New Delhi. The meeting’s objective was to prepare outcomes for the upcoming BIMSTEC summit in Thailand.…
Why the Himalayan Region Is Integral to a Rules-Based Order in the Indo-Pacific
In June 2024, former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi minced no words in criticizing the Chinese government and President Xi Jinping for the persecution of Tibetans, including attempts to erase their culture. Pelosi was part of a U.S. delegation that met with…