These reports remain unconfirmed at the time of writing, but they aren’t unreasonable since India has every reason to want to deprive its rival of this high-quality equipment after their latest clashes in spring, though so too does Russia have its own reasons for defying this request like the reports claim. Indian outlets like India.com and DNA India reported that […]

The Israeli genocide of the Palestinians has persisted for two years —a “live-streamed genocide”, as Amnesty International called it in its April 2025 annual report. Thus far, Israel has murdered over 66,000 Palestinians —the overwhelming majority of whom are civilians; 20,000 of the dead are children, meaning a Palestinian child has been killed every hour since October 2023. Two million […]

In August, five years after a fatal military clash between China and India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi traveled to Tianjin to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. The visit marked Modi’s first trip to China since relations between the Asian neighbors soured in 2020. Western analysts were struck by images of Modi holding […]

On September 13, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Manipur since ethnic violence erupted in May 2023. The visit represented a carefully orchestrated gesture of federal outreach. The Prime Minister’s itinerary sought a balance between Churachandpur, a Kuki-Zo stronghold, and Imphal, the Meitei-dominated capital, to project an image of neutrality. His message emphasized peace, reconciliation, and […]

The recent Sino-Indo rapprochement, which was inadvertently brought about by the US, accounts for why this year’s Chinese host agreed to include this in the Tianjin Declaration unlike how it was conspicuously omitted from late June’s SCO Defense Ministers’ draft statement. The Tianjin Declaration that emerged from this year’s SCO Leaders’ Summit in that namesake Chinese city included condemnation of […]

Today, a 50 percent tariff on most Indian goods went into effect, the latest evidence of how the Trump administration’s attempts at trade diplomacy with India have quietly unraveled into a broader strategic standoff. This development risks compromising decades of work under Republican and Democratic administrations that sought to build a durable US-India strategic relationship to serve, among other things, […]

India has always earned appreciation for maintaining a balanced, well calibrated foreign policy that has historically allowed New Delhi to safeguard its interests. Even in highly volatile geopolitical environment, India has relatively done well in managing its policy of non-alignment. This widely regarded foreign policy, however, is currently in acute crisis. Under Narendra Modi’s government, India has entrapped itself in […]

In the past 25 years, India and the United States have become closer than ever before, building strong economic and strategic ties. Their partnership has rested on shared values and shared interests: they are the two largest democracies in the world, home to vast multicultural populations, and both have been concerned about the rise of India’s northern neighbor, China. But […]

Tech major Nvidia announced that it has received clearance from the United States (US) government to sell its H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chip in China. This development comes on the heels of its CEO, Jensen Huang, meeting the US President Donald Trump. The US Commerce Department had curbed the sales of the H20 AI chip in April 2025, and the […]