Opinion

Beyond Tianjin: Can India and China find common ground?

The India-China relationship will help define the Asian century. Productive competition could drive regional growth, but rivalry might destabilise it

The Navarro ambush: Navigating India-US friction without losing the plot

Peter Navarro’s ambush may have generated headlines, but it does not undo the foundation of Indo-American relations

Modi-Xi meet signals tactical Sino-Indian rapprochement amid US tariff pressures

While driven by a shared interest in responding to a shifting US foreign policy, the deep structural competition and distrust mean that a fundamental realignment of relations may not yet be on the horizon

Trump tariff: Why ‘sanctioning’ India is a strategic folly

Punitive measures intended to discipline India only accelerate its determination to diversify dependencies, deepen coalitions with Europe, Japan, and ASEAN, and invest in sovereign levers of economic and technological strength

Trump’s blunder, Modi’s masterstroke: How bullying Bharat backfired

America has never looked so confused, insecure, and dumbfounded as it did when, in the name of tariffs, it pushed away a friendly nation that was supposed to be the cornerstone of its 21st-century Indo-Pacific strategy

Modi-Putin car ride: When wheels drive diplomacy

Car rides, like other forms of informal diplomacy, provide a key chance for leaders to share lighter moments with their counterparts minus the highly structured formal diplomatic setups

How India, Greece and Egypt can herald a new era of Indo-Mediterranean connectivity

India, Egypt, and Greece can take an initiative in building a new regional architecture that links oceans and continents to emerge not as territories where great powers interact but as players in shaping the common future

Navarro’s Brahmin jab won’t help Trump Make America Great Again

Regardless of who wins or loses elections in America, the ‘Brahmin’ as a bogeyman seems destined to remain, for now

Navigating RIC and SCO: Why India must have clarity of purpose

India’s strength in the RIC and SCO lies not in conformity but in carving space, turning every summit into leverage, every contradiction into opportunity, and every forum into a force multiplier of its own rise

How Europe can be next diplomatic challenge for Netanyahu

The worrying part for Israel is the increasing condemnation and resultant diplomatic isolation and trade and arms embargoes by the European countries, hitherto mostly allies and sympathetic to the Jewish state

How India-China reset requires much more than Trumpian disruption

The SCO Summit definitely comes at a critical time in the context of Trump’s tariffs. However, hoping for an immediate reset in India-China relations would be expecting too much

How PM Modi’s China visit is not a reactionary act, but a multi-alignment strategy

For New Delhi, the symbolism lies in refusing to vacate a space dominated by Beijing. Its presence affirms that decisions about Eurasia and the wider Asian region cannot bypass India

China emerges the ‘winner’ from Modi, Xi’s cautious reengagement, but India won’t be displeased

A reading of the statements issued by New Delhi and Beijing indicates a thematic mistrust lying in the background

PM Modi’s China visit: Strategic engagement, not a reaction to Trumpian storm

The prime minister’s visit to China is the continuation of a long-term, carefully calibrated strategy aimed at normalising relations, managing border and economic issues, and ensuring regional stability, and is not a reactionary policy