Quad Summit: US China-Containment strategy slowly gelling
Though the grouping is unlikely to become a formal alliance it’s essentially a security bloc by stealth.
Though the grouping is unlikely to become a formal alliance it’s essentially a security bloc by stealth.
Extreme weather has been called a ‘threat multiplier’ — feeding into existing social and political problems and making them even worse.
The Global South is not intimidated and has increasingly refused to ally with the West on sanctions and condemnations.
New Delhi’s relationship with Moscow is complicated and goes beyond what the United States wants in response to the Ukraine invasion.
If Washington is wise, it won’t punish its friends for acting in their own interests.
Washington wants Dhaka to join its regional coalition meant to contain China, but sanctions might not be the way to do it.
New Delhi will continue to resist falling in line with Washington, potentially thwarting American strategies of neo-primacy.
Any optimism for a stable relationship has been all but buried with nationalist ambitions and competing security frameworks.
At first sight, the insurgents’ return to power is good news for Pakistan, but this could prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.
UPDATE: Fumio Kishida, officially elected prime minister today in a parliamentary vote, may seek more independence from Washington.
But unlike AUKUS, the US-Japan-Australia-India compact has a narrow path to emerge as a constructive actor in Asia.
The prospect of new extremist threats pouring into or igniting within these states or just over the border is a real security issue.
There will likely be a return to a much more historically normal state of global affairs in which multiple players are engaged.
How do Russia, Pakistan, China, Iran and India view what seems to be an inevitable Taliban rise? A regional expert weighs in.
A new report proposes the US-India relationship could thrive with a non-military, regional balancing approach instead.
While details of the incident remain murky, tensions have significantly elevated between the two countries with the world’s largest populations.
A power sharing agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government is going to be extremely difficult and the available evidence indicates that the violence and tension will not end any time soon.
Before the strengthening of trade links with India, Saudi Arabia usually supported Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir. Now their interests seem to have diverged.
Last month’s Islamic summit in Malaysia highlighted the risks and fragility of acquiescence to the repression of Muslims in China and India.