Both China & West Want India, But Will the ‘Sweet Spot’ Moment Last?
2 years, 5 months ago

Both China & West Want India, But Will the ‘Sweet Spot’ Moment Last?

The Quint  

India, it seems, is in a ‘sweet spot’ – a happy phrase that former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramaniam used in the Economic Survey for 2015-16 to describe India’s opportunity to enter a double-digit economic growth phase – on the foreign policy front. This can be seen from India’s happy position at the G-7 summit in Munich last month, which was captured in the video clip where US President Joe Biden tapped on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s shoulder as the latter was engaged in a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron. It seems rich countries of the West want India to be on their side in the confrontation with Russia in Ukraine. The Americans have managed to rope India into the anti-China Quad of Australia, Japan, India, and the United States, and in the other quadrant of India, United Arab Emirates, Israel, and the United States.

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The fall of Assad: What it means for India's strategy in West Asia
2 weeks ago

The fall of Assad: What it means for India's strategy in West Asia

Live Mint  

The fall of Assad regime in Syria has thrust India into a delicate balancing act. Assad has long been a cornerstone of India’s West Asia strategy. New Delhi consistently backed a Syrian-led political process in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2254, reaffirming its commitment to Syria’s sovereignty, independence, and unity. More broadly, the fall of Assad threatens to undermine …

Head-on | Why a rising India worries both the West and China
4 weeks ago

Head-on | Why a rising India worries both the West and China

Firstpost  

By 2027, India will be the world’s third largest economy. The rear view mirror in both Washington and Beijing shows an accelerating Indian economy growing at nearly twice China’s rate and thrice America’s Never before has a former European colony, impoverished and subjugated for centuries as India was, risen to the status of an economic power. The rear view mirror …

India's Strategic Labyrinth: Navigating the Grey Zone with China
1 month, 3 weeks ago

India's Strategic Labyrinth: Navigating the Grey Zone with China

Hindustan Times  

Following the recent bilateral between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at the Brics Summit, there is speculation about the future of India-China ties. While India's economy is catching up to China's, the two countries face significant differences in terms of military strength, economic influence, and strategic interests. India's strategic challenges include Sino-Pak collusion, grey zone threats, and …

India plays opportunistic game in US: China Daily editorial
3 months, 4 weeks ago

India plays opportunistic game in US: China Daily editorial

China Daily  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told his hosts in Kyiv on Friday, one month after his visit to Moscow, he was committed to playing a personal role in trying to mediate in the over-2-year-old conflict between Ukraine and Russia, urging both sides "to sit together and look for ways to come out of this crisis". Speaking to a gathering of Indian-Americans …

Head-on | India’s tripolar strategy to balance US, Russia and China
4 months, 1 week ago

Head-on | India’s tripolar strategy to balance US, Russia and China

Firstpost  

As PM Modi prepares to meet Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Kyiv next week, the fractious world order will be on both leaders’ minds PM Narendra Modi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had interacted briefly at the G7 summit in Italy in June and have spoken on the phone subsequently. Cynics in India call Modi’s Kyiv visit a belated attempt to …

Global Express Exclusive | Will China spark the next world war? | Part 2
6 months ago

Global Express Exclusive | Will China spark the next world war? | Part 2

New Indian Express  

This week we have a very unusual guest in Dr David Passig, aka the Futurist, the ‘man who saw tomorrow ‘ Prof Passig who teaches at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, and is a best-selling author not only saw and predicted the cataclysmic 9/11, connecting the dots that no one had thought to, but also unsurprisingly, predicted the current conflict that …

China hasn't observed longstanding written agreements that caused 2020 bloodshed: Jaishankar in Japan
9 months, 2 weeks ago

China hasn't observed longstanding written agreements that caused 2020 bloodshed: Jaishankar in Japan

India TV News  

Tokyo: Taking a dig at China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said Beijing has not observed longstanding written agreements with India and blamed it for the bloodshed at the borders in 2020, the first in more than four decades. There's a reality out there, you have to deal with that reality,” he said and added, “Ideally, we would …

India Maintaining a Fine Balance in West Asia - News18
1 year, 1 month ago

India Maintaining a Fine Balance in West Asia - News18

News 18  

A country’s foreign policy has to reflect the change in its external relations and international developments. In that background, Prime Minister Modi wanted to extend India’s solidarity with Israel following the horrific terrorist attacks against its civilian population on October 7. The geopolitical context of India’s deep support for Palestine was the Cold War, the nonaligned movement, India’s difficult ties …

India and the great power contest in West Asia
1 year, 3 months ago

India and the great power contest in West Asia

The Hindu  

At the G-20 summit in New Delhi earlier this month, United States President Joe Biden and others unveiled a U.S.-backed infrastructure project to connect India, West Asia and Europe with shipping lanes, rail networks, pipelines and data cables. These seemingly unrelated but geopolitically contiguous developments offer a broad framework of Mr. Biden’s approach towards West Asia, a geostrategically important region …

India’s rising geopolitical clout will be tested as it hosts the G20 summit
1 year, 3 months ago

India’s rising geopolitical clout will be tested as it hosts the G20 summit

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Ahead of India’s hosting of the G20 summit of leading economies, its prime minister invited 125 mostly developing countries to a virtual meeting in January to signal New Delhi’s intention to be their champion on the world stage. Steering through fractures among the world’s various blocs over Russia’s war in Ukraine will be a “diplomatic high-wire act” …

Despite Xi’s decision not to attend G20 in India, China says bilateral ties are ‘generally stable’
1 year, 3 months ago

Despite Xi’s decision not to attend G20 in India, China says bilateral ties are ‘generally stable’

Associated Press  

BEIJING — Despite Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision not to attend this week’s Group of 20 summit in India, Beijing says that relations between the two nuclear-armed Asian giants remain “generally stable.” China announced on Monday that Premier Li Qiang, who took office just this spring, would represent China at the Sept. 9-10 meeting in New Delhi. Relations between China …

DC Edit | Ignore China's pinpricks, make G-20 big success
1 year, 3 months ago

DC Edit | Ignore China's pinpricks, make G-20 big success

Deccan Chronicle  

China is at its old games again but its cartographic “expansionism” encompassing Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai Chin, Taiwan and the South China Sea region has a message that may be bigger than the one to India for rejecting its overtures of normalising ties before resolving the LAC situation. As China’s economy tanks, with its over-reliance on real estate representing about 30 …

Facing China at Brics, India stands its ground
1 year, 4 months ago

Facing China at Brics, India stands its ground

Hindustan Times  

Since its inception in 2010, the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa grouping was designed as a multilateral institution based on sovereign equality and consensus-driven decision-making among its member States. At the Johannesburg Brics summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi exuded the self-confidence of a genuinely rising power by talking up prospects of India becoming a $5 trillion economy and …

DC Edit | Face up to obdurate China
1 year, 4 months ago

DC Edit | Face up to obdurate China

Deccan Chronicle  

Given China’s obstinacy in insisting on separating the border issue from the rest of the ties with India, it came as no surprise that the talks ended in a stalemate. Any chance of disengagement in points along LAC at places like Depsang and Demchok will remain frozen so long as China stays stubborn about not giving an inch on the …

Slippery Slope of Geopolitics: The Sino Slide - News18
1 year, 4 months ago

Slippery Slope of Geopolitics: The Sino Slide - News18

News 18  

For four decades, the Chinese juggernaut has been marching forward. By the end of the last decade, the world, including the US, the P5 nations and India, had more or less reconciled to a future dominated by the G2 — the US and China. Indian public opinion now clearly treats China as its enemy number one — a burden that …

India seeks bigger role in Indo-Pacific as China continues on aggressive path
1 year, 4 months ago

India seeks bigger role in Indo-Pacific as China continues on aggressive path

Live Mint  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a "guarantee" that during his third term, India will become the third largest economy, one place below China, a country with which India is having bilateral issues for quite a while now. The recent developments in the region are hinting that India is seeking a big-brother role in the Indo-Pacific region, especially for countries …

India facing ‘very complicated challenge’ from China, ensuring no attempt made to change status quo in border areas unilaterally: Jaishankar
1 year, 6 months ago

India facing ‘very complicated challenge’ from China, ensuring no attempt made to change status quo in border areas unilaterally: Jaishankar

The Hindu  

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said India faces a "very complicated challenge" from China, and the Narendra Modi government has taken steps to ensure no attempts are made to change the status quo in the border areas unilaterally. This challenge was "very visible" in border areas in the last three years, Mr. Jaishankar said on Saturday, adding that both …

The View from India | Two West Asias
1 year, 8 months ago

The View from India | Two West Asias

The Hindu  

West Asia, a region which, with its immense hydrocarbon resources, remains critical for the economic security of several powers, including India and China, is witnessing rapid changes in recent weeks. Releasing a list of the 11 places along with a map that shows parts of Arunachal Pradesh instead as inside the southern Tibetan region, that China refers to as Zangnan, …

What Xi Jinping’s West Asia Forays Mean for India, US and the World - News18
1 year, 9 months ago

What Xi Jinping’s West Asia Forays Mean for India, US and the World - News18

News 18  

Taken in context, China brokering a truce/peace between Saudi Arabia and Tehran may impact wider political geography, including India. If nothing else, it may ensure that much of West Asia/Middle East proclaims neutrality in any future geopolitical standoff between China and the US, and also between China and India. It may evolve a contemporary dynamic of its own, where China, …

No reaction from India to Beijing’s role in Saudi-Iran deal is disquieting
1 year, 9 months ago

No reaction from India to Beijing’s role in Saudi-Iran deal is disquieting

The Hindu  

The Saudi-Iran agreement signed in Beijing on Friday, if successful, will have far-reaching impacts worldwide. While the agreement has been welcomed by the United Nations, France, Jordan and many West Asian countries, it is Disquieting for Delhi Though New Delhi has not formally reacted to the announcement so far, the fact that two close partners like the Kingdom of Saudi …

India is a global strategic partner of U.S., says official
1 year, 9 months ago

India is a global strategic partner of U.S., says official

The Hindu  

India is a global strategic partner of the United States, the Biden administration said on February 27 as Secretary of State Tony Blinken left for New Delhi to attend a host of key conferences including the G-20 Foreign Ministers' meeting. "We share a vision with India of a free and open Indo-Pacific, and India is a key partner of ours …

In the new evolving world, India needs a new vision
1 year, 11 months ago

In the new evolving world, India needs a new vision

The Hindu  

The year 2022 can perhaps be best summarised by a quote by Vladimir Lenin: ‘There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.’ The year began with the ostensible vanquishing of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to the remarkable collective vaccination efforts of science, business and governments across the world. Editorial | Clarity and confusion: On Rahul …

Accepting the new normal in the Indo-Pacific contestation
2 years ago

Accepting the new normal in the Indo-Pacific contestation

The Hindu  

As 2022 comes to an end, the world is embracing a ‘new normal’ where new fault lines are being reconfigured in the Indo-Pacific. As tensions between an aggressive China and an emerging India intensify, New Delhi’s Quad partners are also making inroads in its backyard, ushering significant changes in the region. China’s widening outreach The contestation for South Asia and …

Ladakh to Xinjiang: Why are India and China suddenly playing footsie?
2 years, 2 months ago

Ladakh to Xinjiang: Why are India and China suddenly playing footsie?

Firstpost  

The US and its Western allies like the UK, Canada, and Germany have also let all kinds of anti-India terror groups and politicians a free run Curious signs started appearing in late August. He said an Asian century can’t happen if India and China don’t join hands and that the two had far more common interests than differences. Spokesman and …

Head-on | How a rising India can counter China’s geopolitical challenge
2 years, 4 months ago

Head-on | How a rising India can counter China’s geopolitical challenge

Firstpost  

China’s pre-occupation with Taiwan over the next few years along with its continuing economic slowdown presents India with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebalance the geopolitical odds in its favour Indian policymakers have several economic, geopolitical and military levers to counter the challenge China poses to India’s orderly rise as a regional power today and as a global power in the …

The race of two Asian giants: India and China
2 years, 4 months ago

The race of two Asian giants: India and China

The Hindu  

Last month, a United Nations population survey estimated that a milestone may be passed in 2023. This is a reminder of how far the two Asian giants have come since their moments of profound political change in the late 1940s: independence for India in 1947, and the victory of the Chinese Communist Party and establishment of the People’s Republic of …

I2U2 Summit Has Given India Space to Pursue A Nimble Diplomacy, Become Economic Beneficiary
2 years, 5 months ago

I2U2 Summit Has Given India Space to Pursue A Nimble Diplomacy, Become Economic Beneficiary

News 18  

India is playing geopolitics confidently and astutely as testified by the I2U2 virtual summit on July 14. Even though Israel and Iran are at loggerheads and the tensions between Iran and the Gulf states have been high over Yemen, Iran’s regional policies and its nuclear programme, India has navigated through these diplomatic shoals adroitly and built mutually advantageous ties with …

How Middle Eastern Quad Can Be a Challenge for India
2 years, 5 months ago

How Middle Eastern Quad Can Be a Challenge for India

News 18  

The first summit meeting of the Middle Eastern Quad will happen during President Joe Biden’s trip to the region during 13-16 July. From Israel, he will fly to Jeddah for a summit meeting with the Saudi leadership, especially Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom the American President consciously avoided due to the Khashoggi affair since assuming office in January last …

India Has Just Told China Its Game On With IPEF & Initiative to Combat Illegal Fishing
2 years, 6 months ago

India Has Just Told China Its Game On With IPEF & Initiative to Combat Illegal Fishing

News 18  

India has made a strong strategic statement and commitment, by joining the newly announced 13 nation Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and the announcement of the Quad’s new initiative to combat illegal fishing in the Indo-Pacific region under the Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness. Deepening commitment to the Quad and joining the IPEF are deliberate decisions based on an assessment that China is …

US signals focus back on China, QUAD summit on May 24
2 years, 7 months ago

US signals focus back on China, QUAD summit on May 24

Hindustan Times  

With White House announcing the QUAD summit during US President Joseph Biden’s bilateral visit to Japan and South Korea on May 24, Washington has signaled that it has not forgotten Indo-Pacific amidst the never-ending turmoil in Ukraine. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US president Joe Biden, Japanese premier Fumio Kishida and Australian PM Scott Morrison While the White House statement makes …

India's NAM 2.0: Why West's response to Modi's non-alignment is restrained
2 years, 8 months ago

India's NAM 2.0: Why West's response to Modi's non-alignment is restrained

India Today  

Back in 1961, at the Belgrade Conference, three leaders India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru along with Gamal Abdel Nazeer, the Egyptian President and Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia laid the foundation of the Non-Aligned Movement. REASON’S FOR MODI’S NON-ALIGNED POLICY India, till date, has abstained from every resolution on the ongoing conflict which was moved by either the …

‘With Us or Against Us’ is Outdated, the Quad Will Benefit from India-Russia Ties
2 years, 9 months ago

‘With Us or Against Us’ is Outdated, the Quad Will Benefit from India-Russia Ties

News 18  

The US and EU’s sanctions on Russia for its military action in Ukraine have made India assert its strategic autonomy. President Biden touched on the topic, claiming India’s response to the sanctions has been “shaky.” Despite this, India continued to work towards its energy security by engaging with Russia while it also held multilateral and bilateral meetings with Quad members. …

Japan and Australia Back India’s Push Against Biden’s Derailment of The Quad
2 years, 9 months ago

Japan and Australia Back India’s Push Against Biden’s Derailment of The Quad

News 18  

With their recent back-to-back meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison have sent a strong and united message to the Biden Administration— the Quad’s Indo-Pacific agenda should not fall out of focus and that involves preventing the dilution of the Quad’s apprehensions about China. While President Joe Biden has called …

Cracks in Quad are Showing, from Doubts over US Pledge to Indo-Pacific to Differences over Ukraine
2 years, 10 months ago

Cracks in Quad are Showing, from Doubts over US Pledge to Indo-Pacific to Differences over Ukraine

News 18  

So exciting for us in Melbourne to have hosted the latest Quad meeting, this time of foreign ministers from India, Japan, the US and Australia. The ‘elephant in the room’ for the Quad is: that while China is the major trading partner of most countries in this region, the US trading involvement locally is not as strong. But US Secretary …

It's Indo-Pacific in Quad, Afghanistan a priority in UNGA
3 years, 3 months ago

It's Indo-Pacific in Quad, Afghanistan a priority in UNGA

Hindustan Times  

Although Indo-Pacific and Climate Change and Justice will be the priority for Quad summit on September 24, Afghanistan and terrorism will be the flavour of the UNGA high-level segment till September 27. Prime Minster Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden According to top diplomats in New York and Washington, the western embarrassment over Afghanistan with the Taliban throwing the …

The problem in the West
3 years, 3 months ago

The problem in the West

Hindustan Times  

With the announcement of the new Australia-United Kingdom-United States security arrangement, the Indo-Pacific theatre has got a strong military element to counter Chinese aggression across the maritime domain. It is in the west that India now confronts a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, which is a potential hub for radicalised Islamist groups, including those terror outfits which have a clear stated agenda against …

In signal to China, U.S. raised India ties during Alaska talks
3 years, 8 months ago

In signal to China, U.S. raised India ties during Alaska talks

The Hindu  

The Joe Biden administration highlighted the strength of U.S.-India ties in its March 19 meeting with Chinese officials in Alaska, underlining how it has increasingly come to view India as central to its broader objectives in dealing with China in the Indo-Pacific region. The speed with which the new Biden administration has pushed closer ties with India has come in …

With Quad Summit, India Plans to Outsmart China at its Own Game
3 years, 9 months ago

With Quad Summit, India Plans to Outsmart China at its Own Game

News 18  

The Quad virtual summit constitutes a major step in politically consolidating this group. Knowing China’s sensitivities about the Quad, India has been careful not to rub them so as not to disturb the precarious modus vivendi with China on the border and the ties in general. The collapse of the border agreements with China’s Ladakh aggression would explain India’s readiness …

Quad: strategic opportunity or quagmire?
3 years, 9 months ago

Quad: strategic opportunity or quagmire?

The Hindu  

On March 5, the Indian media carried news reports, based on remarks by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, known briefly as Quad, would soon meet at summit level, thus signalling the importance attached to this grouping by the Biden administration. India’s engagement with the Quad goes back to China’s expanding footprint in South Asia and …

India is Asia’s “gravity point’’, says Japanese Deputy Defence Minister
3 years, 11 months ago

India is Asia’s “gravity point’’, says Japanese Deputy Defence Minister

The Hindu  

Describing India as “Asia’s gravity point”, Japanese Deputy Minister of Defence Yasuhide Nakayama has said his country would like to see India “commit more” towards the Quadrilateral coalition or Quad. In an interview to news channel Wion, Mr. Nakayama also expressed concerns over growing challenges emanating from Chinese military assertiveness in the key maritime zones in the region, and said …

The shifting trajectory of India’s foreign policy
4 years, 1 month ago

The shifting trajectory of India’s foreign policy

The Hindu  

The Third India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue between the Foreign and Defence Ministers of India and the U.S. The centrepiece of the dialogue was the signing of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation, which marked India’s entry as a full member into the select category of nations entitled to receive highly classified U.S. defence and intelligence information. Even …

AP Explains: What’s driving India-China military standoff
4 years, 3 months ago

AP Explains: What’s driving India-China military standoff

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — Tensions along the disputed India-China border seem to be getting worse, three months after their deadliest confrontation in decades. ___ THE LINE OF ACTUAL CONTROL The fiercely contested LAC separates Chinese and Indian held territories from Ladakh in the west to India’s eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims in its entirety. In all, China claims …

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