Modi, Bhutan, China and the squeeze

PM Modi’s visit tries to steady India’s hold in Bhutan at a moment when China’s slow, patient pressure is tightening Bhutan’s strategic choices.

Indian media’s Kirk

Indian media treated the activist’s assassination as a cautionary tale about polarisation, not the partisan battlefield American outlets made it.

Fuelling a new equation

As sanctions make Russian oil a legal, financial liability, India is forced to rebalance energy ties and turn crude politics into tariff negotiation.

Beijing’s new club

Dhaka’s hesitant participation in the cosy trilateral chat with Pakistan and China shows that the neighbourhood game is not over.