Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Visit to India: Assessing Outcomes and the Future of India-Japan Ties
This roundtable will examine the outcomes of the visit and their implications for India-Japan relations. It will explore opportunities and challenges in strategic, economic, technological, and people-to-people cooperation, while assessing how both countries can deepen collaboration, advance shared priorities, and strengthen their Special Strategic and Global Partnership in the Indo-Pacific.
After the Crisis: Three Futures for India and Pakistan
This is the closing report in the series, and it turns from what has happened to what comes next. It asks where the India-Pakistan relationship is heading a year after the April-May 2025 crisis, now that the relationship has been stripped to almost nothing, with no trade, a suspended Indus Waters Treaty, downgraded missions, and severed people-to-people ties.
Shifting dynamics of power projection in the Indian ocean region
The Indian Ocean is seeing growing naval activity from China, Pakistan and major global powers. The analysis examines what these shifts mean for India’s maritime security, energy routes and naval […]
Himanta, Suvendu, and the remaking of India’s eastern border
Himanta Biswa Sarma and Suvendu Adhikari have turned the Bangladesh border into the central theatre of eastern India, where “push-backs” and anti-immigration campaigns are impacting diplomacy, trade, and India’s long-term […]
Modern wars need a new grammar
The conditions under which the old vocabulary operated have fundamentally changed
C Raja Mohan writes | Elon Musk, the robot revolution and a dominant China: Will India be left behind in the embodied AI race?
Self-reliance rhetoric is no substitute for strategy here. Unlike China, India cannot isolate its robotics ambitions from the world; its near-term task is to combine international collaboration with the patient […]