The Shocking Rift Between India and the United States

Can Progress in the Partnership Survive Trump?
Trump heat, Tokyo-Tianjin warmth: Modi begins to rejig India’s major power relations

In riding roughshod over partners such as Australia, India, Japan and South Korea on trade, and by threatening to weaponise security ties, Trump has forced them both to strengthen bonds […]
PM Modi’s Asia tour: Expect rhetoric from SCO meet in China, progress in Japan

The SCO is often portrayed as an inner-Asian club standing up to American dominance, an aspiration undermined by internal contradictions
India-China ties — improvement signs are loud, problems sliding under the radar

Do India and China share a strategic or geopolitical alignment? Are there signs of improving relations in this aspect? Yet again, the evidence points in the other direction.
Modi, Lee, and Trump’s Nobel Prize Obsession

What India’s and South Korea’s dealings with Washington tell us about real and imagined U.S. peace initiatives in Asia.
Best of Both Sides: Reset with China is not a possibility

China remains India’s primary strategic challenge with very little convergence of interests