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

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 …

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

Whenever the United States-led Anglosphere sees a potential threat to its global hegemony, it acts swiftly and ruthlessly. For 30 years from the 1980s to the 2010s, China quietly stole US military technology from under the Pentagon’s nose and deeply infiltrated Silicon Valley. International financial institutions have warned that India could overtake both the US and China as the world’s …

Head-on | Why China secretly fears India’s rise

China’s oft-stated ambition is to be the world’s leading superpower by 2049, the centenary of the CCP’s founding. Indo-Asian News Service reported on 7 August, 2008: “India’s ruling Congress and the Communist Party of China on Thursday signed a pact to put in place a mechanism that would help regular high-level exchanges between them, soon after party chief Sonia Gandhi …

In Unprecedented Move, India Gifts Decommissioned Warship To Vietnam Taking China Head-On

New Delhi: Taking China head-on, India last week gifted Vietnam a fully operational missile corvette, a small-sized warship, in an effort to assert its power in the region as part of its SAGAR initiative as well as to propagate the concept of ASEAN centrality in the Indo-Pacific framework. Shekhar Sinha, former FOC-in-C, Western Naval Command and Chief of Integrated Defence …

America and China are on a head-on collision course

Following the May G7 summit in Hiroshima, US President Joe Biden claimed that he expects a “thaw” in relations with China. In fact, far from thawing, the new cold war is getting colder, and the G7 summit itself magnified Chinese concerns about the US pursuing a strategy of “comprehensive containment, encirclement, and suppression.” Unlike previous gatherings, when G7 leaders offered …

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

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 …