Navigating the shifting tides of global power, conflict, and diplomacy
The United States is the world's only regional hegemon — and it should be doing everything in its power to prevent China from becoming another. Instead, Washington finds itself bogged down in Ukraine and West Asia while Beijing constructs the architecture of Asian hegemony.
Read MoreOffensive realism’s core logic is sound — but its geographical assumptions were built from twentieth century data. Why South Asia, India, and the Indian Ocean must be included in any serious map of great power competition.
India sits at the centre of the world’s most contested sea — flanked by a rising China, a failing Pakistan, and an unreliable America. The hardest truth of Indian grand strategy: she has no true friends.
China has spent two decades methodically threading a necklace of ports, bases, and influence around India. India has spent most of that time not noticing. That is beginning to change.
