The struggle over the future world order is no longer simply between China and the West. From BRICS and development finance to technology and reform of the United Nations, India and China
Last week, I published a comprehensive report titled Weaponizing Commerce: The Mirage of a Coercive Trade Policy, which investigated the historical precedents and structural failures of using tariffs as instruments of geopolitical
Washington rolled out bombers, pandas and a new helipad. Beijing left with the photographs—and almost none of the hard bargains the relationship required. President Trump told reporters the meeting was “great.” He
In our fractured world, the 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi, India, produced something that has become rare in high politics: a long, negotiated text that every member accepted. The New Delhi
There are two versions of Pakistan visible today. The first is the Pakistan presented abroad. Its army chief, General Asim Munir, is received in foreign capitals, photographed with political and business elites
Last week, while much of Brazil’s attention was fixed on the usual churn of domestic issues, our Communications Minister, Frederico de Siqueira Filho, signed a document in Pune, India, that deserves far
Pick up your phone. Turn it over. Somewhere on the back, in letters small enough that most people never bother to read them, is a line that used to say almost the
For most of this year, Beijing’s economic managers have offered a familiar reassurance: growth is cooling, but it’s cooling in a controlled, deliberate way — the natural byproduct of a planned shift
For four decades, “the China story” was the only story worth telling about Asian growth. A command economy poured concrete, wired factories, and moved hundreds of millions of people from farms to
When Senior General Min Aung Hlaing stepped off his aircraft at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport, inspectable under a full military honor guard and flanked by smiling Thai officials, the symbolism was unmistakable.
For two months, the mountain towns of Pakistan-administered Kashmir have been under a kind of siege that rarely makes it into Western headlines. Rangers have fired on unarmed crowds. Internet and mobile
For two decades, the story of India’s Global Capability Centres was really a story about two or three cities. Bengaluru ran the engineering. Hyderabad and the National Capital Region picked up much
The recent conflict involving Iran has done far more than disrupt tanker traffic and lift fuel prices for a few weeks. It has triggered a deeper strategic reassessment across developing Asia, where