China’s Multi‑Vector Pressure on Japan Demands a Unified Response
China’s Communist Party is waging a sustained pressure campaign against Japan that is as relentless as it is multifaceted. Through…
Buddhism as a Political Instrument in China.
China’s paradoxical embrace of Buddhism is not about faith but function. The CCP, constitutionally atheist, has long sought to neutralize…
Kandahar’s Grip: How Power Consolidation Is Reshaping Taliban Rule
Nearly five years after returning to power, the Taliban has entered a new phase of its political evolution. The movement…
New Delhi’s Quiet Inflection: BRICS, Non-Traditional Security, and a Multipolar Security Architecture
On the morning of 23 June 2026, in a New Delhi rendered torpid by the pre-monsoon heat, India’s National Security…
First BRICS MSME Forum: India’s BRICS Chairship and the Microeconomic Foundations of Multipolarity
From 19–21 June 2026, India convened the First BRICS MSME Forum at Agra, inaugurating the first permanent institutional mechanism that BRICS…
Bridging the BRICS Wall amidst Geopolitical Churning: An Indian Perspective
With BRICS as a major multilateral institution marking 20 years since its inception and with the presidency coming to India…
From “No Hegemony” to Nuclear Expansion: China’s Broken Promise
In November 1998, Jiang Zemin stood before students at Waseda University in Tokyo and reportedly declared: “Even if China develops,…
ASEAN’s Collective Security Imperative
Southeast Asia’s volatile security environment is increasingly not a problem that can be handled by a single country or a…
Wang Yi’s BRICS Security Diplomacy: Rebuilding Trust Amidst Tensions
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s attendance at the BRICS National Security Advisers (NSAs) gathering is more than a routine diplomatic…
Penning a book on China’s colonial games in Tibet
China may be diplomatically recognised as a neighbour by the Union government in New Delhi, but for many Indians, it…
