20 Feb 2026
India’s fleet review was as much diplomacy as pageantry
The country is expanding maritime influence without formal alliances.
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17 Feb 2026
Can the Quad regain momentum after the India–US reset?
If Washington and New Delhi can compartmentalise their disagreements, the Quad becomes more predictable. -
13 Feb 2026
Climate diplomacy has moved beyond the days of a single grand bargain
Environmental governance is fragmenting into trade deals and beyond, and the Global South is adapting. -
10 Feb 2026
India and Australia’s trade deal remains half-finished
Economic integration hasn't kept pace with geopolitical convergence. -
2 Feb 2026
India-EU trade deal: Beyond the “mother of all deals”
Trump’s trade tactics have misfired, pushing two of the world’s largest economies into a landmark partnership. -
28 Jan 2026
Green shoots emerge in India’s economic reform agenda
The shock of US tariffs has helped revive India’s stalled liberalisation efforts. -
19 Jan 2026
Cricket: Has India’s soft power tool become a strategic liability?
Bangladesh will find other neighbourhood allegiances if New Delhi persists with its cricket coercion. -
13 Jan 2026
Bangladesh elections will be a test of democracy
Violence and tensions mark the run-up to the first free elections since Hasina’s ouster. -
8 Jan 2026
Beijing’s view of China–India relations
A visit to Beijing reveals faultlines in the China-India relationship, and a few stereotypes. -
22 Dec 2025
Indians fly the duopolistic skies
When IndiGo Airlines cancelled more than 5000 flights in a month, the need for reform of India’s aviation sector became clear. -
22 Dec 2025
India emerges as a data-centre hub
Despite major investments from Google and Microsoft, India must tackle infrastructure, geographical, and regulatory hurdles to establish itself as an AI hub. -
17 Dec 2025
China’s dispute with India over Arunachal Pradesh
The detainment in Shanghai of an Indian citizen highlights Beijing’s fixation with controlling narratives of statehood. -
16 Dec 2025
India’s economic reforms: Domestic resilience to reshape global standing
Labour codes, tax cuts and GST reforms position India for a new era of growth and international influence. -
16 Dec 2025
Leveraging Taiwan: India’s strategic counterbalance to China
Record trade and closer ties with Taipei mark New Delhi’s shift from caution to assertiveness. -
9 Dec 2025
Divided India revises voter rolls
Ahead of crucial state elections, old concerns about illegal migration resurface. -
9 Dec 2025
India’s chance with Timor-Leste to shift ASEAN’s gaze
The newest ASEAN member faces the Indian Ocean, not the South China Sea, giving India fresh maritime leverage. -
3 Dec 2025
High stakes in India’s refusal to send former Bangladesh PM to trial
A carefully worded extradition treaty means New Delhi can hedge its bets, but it should be prepared for blowback. -
24 Nov 2025
Modi courts Putin with an eye on Trump’s disapproval
Strategic autonomy worked when Washington was indulgent. Now India must choose what matters more. -
21 Nov 2025
India and the Blue Pacific: A partnership for climate security
Pacific Island countries demand respect for sovereignty and self-determination. Can India help build that vision? -
18 Nov 2025
Terrorism returns to Delhi with a troubling new profile
A murky explosion in India last week dredges up old concerns. -
11 Nov 2025
When women win: India’s cricket revolution
India’s World Cup victory shows that investing in women’s sport delivers results beyond the boundary, with lessons across the region. -
6 Nov 2025
Will a trade deal repair India-US ties?
New Delhi’s optimism about Trump's return has given way to punitive tariffs, stalled negotiations, and diplomatic drift. -
28 Oct 2025
Is the India–China détente real?
Existential differences and longstanding distrust make the current normalisation of relations deeply unstable. -
24 Oct 2025
Japan’s hawkish turn under Takaichi tests India’s balancing act
Security convergence with New Delhi looks set to deepen, but nationalist priorities in Tokyo may shift the tone of economic engagement. -
23 Oct 2025
US foreign worker visas: Where there’s crisis, there’s opportunity
Highly skilled Indian workers will be looking elsewhere after Trump’s visa decision. This could be Australia’s moment. -
15 Oct 2025
Building trust: the real work in Australia-India defence ties
Measurable outcomes, not strategic rhetoric, will determine whether bilateral relations prosper. -
10 Oct 2025
Why Ladakh refuses to Leh low
A recent protest demonstrates persistent contradictions in a strategically vital region. -
9 Oct 2025
India’s Rajnath Singh in Canberra: Turning warm words into a shared maritime operating model
Real-time information sharing and coordinated patrols would deliver tangible benefits to the Indo-Pacific, not just rhetoric. -
8 Oct 2025
Pakistan’s Pasni port pitch to Washington can reshape regional rivalries with China and India
Minerals over missiles – at least, that’s the message Islamabad is sending. -
24 Sep 2025
India’s Ocean: A new report charts Delhi’s maritime direction
Self-defined as the net security provider in its near seas, India now has a more ambitious agenda. -
22 Sep 2025
The handshake that wasn’t: Cricket a casualty of India-Pakistan tensions
The sad story of how the sporting ground can transform from peacemaker to political battlefield. -
18 Sep 2025
Nepal’s generational revolt catches China and India in the middle
Political upheaval in Kathmandu tests the limits of great power influence in South Asia. -
17 Sep 2025
India’s diaspora in far-right crosshairs
Indian-origin immigrants are bearing the brunt of MAGA-fication globally. -
11 Sep 2025
India-US relations demonstrate fickle foreign policies but sticky relations
New Delhi’s efforts to maintain equidistance from all powers increasingly faces pressure to choose a side. -
10 Sep 2025
Canberra needs fewer partners, better focus – and a team-up with Seoul and Delhi offers just that
An Australia-India-South Korea triangle makes sense in an era of uncertainty about the United States. -
10 Sep 2025
India’s digital arrest scams
Cultural predispositions and the brain’s cognitive biases are being weaponised by cybercriminals to devastating effect. -
5 Sep 2025
Digital authoritarianism is on the rise: Australia should take note
Democracies are increasingly using the tools of digital control under the guise of national security. -
3 Sep 2025
What resuming direct India-China flights reveals about changing regional priorities
A reconnection that might make managing a fraught relationship just that bit easier. -
2 Sep 2025
Nothing new in the India-US spat or Delhi-Beijing bonhomie
The baggage of history weighs more than just the personalities of the present. -
1 Sep 2025
The fallout for Australia from US-India tension
Canberra and New Delhi could forge deeper ties as compensation for America’s changing regional priorities. -
1 Sep 2025
Four legs bad, three legs better? Rescuing the Quad with an India-Japan-Australia grouping
Three democratic middle powers have compelling reasons to forge an independent partnership that doesn’t depend on US politics. -
29 Aug 2025
The bigger story behind Modi’s China trip – and it’s not India’s tensions with Trump
New Delhi’s foreign policy remains anchored in diversification, not American expectations of a special partnership. -
27 Aug 2025
Trump’s tariffs are only part of the problem for Indian manufacturing
Deeper structural problems at home pose bigger challenges than the trade dispute with Washington. -
27 Aug 2025
Kashmir’s double burden: Climate change and conflict
Recurring floods in disputed Kashmir highlight how geopolitical tensions compound climate vulnerabilities and hinder long-term solutions. -
22 Aug 2025
The next India-Pakistan crisis could spiral out of control
Tensions with Washington and Trump’s Islamabad embrace appear to remove crucial past restraints on military escalation. -
21 Aug 2025
Why has India reimagined its role from Vishwaguru to Vishwamitra?
A quiet diplomatic evolution shows how Modi learned to stop preaching and start partnering. -
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20 Aug 2025
Time to reboot the India-France-Australia trilateral
Three Indian Ocean powers must institutionalise their partnership or risk becoming another underused diplomatic forum. -
11 Aug 2025
Trump and Modi can’t ignore the trade policy power of India’s farmers
Electoral arithmetic and protest power give India’s agricultural sector a big voice. -
4 Aug 2025
What message will Modi take if he attends the SCO Summit in China?
A visit would be a positive step forward in what appears to be a thaw in ties – but against a backdrop of continued disagreements.