Letter from the Editors
The DiplomatWelcome to the November 2020 issue of The Diplomat Magazine. In our cover story, we take a bird’s eye view of the state of democracy in the four main subregions of the Indo-Pacific: East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Asia. However, East Asia’s democracies remain a bright spot, while Central Asia poses a tricky question: Can democracy decline if it never really existed in the first place? Next up: Amitendu Palit, a senior research fellow and research lead at the Institute of South Asian Studies in the National University of Singapore, parses India’s efforts toward achieving self-reliance, particularly by putting some economic space between New Delhi and Beijing. Still, “India is not the only country wary of an assertive China,” Palit notes, and New Delhi may just be able to team its efforts up with those of other countries equally skeptical toward China.
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