News and analysis from India and its neighboring countries in South Asia, a region home to one-fourth of the world’s population. Delivered Thursday. India’s Coronavirus Crisis Plays Out on Twitter Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Social media stands in for an absent state amid […]
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Republic Tracks Mehul Choksi: Investigation To Deportation, Watch Coverage From Dominica
India has been making enormous efforts to secure fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi’s extradition in connection with the Punjab National Bank scam case. Along with his nephew Nirav Modi, he has been accused of allegedly siphoning off Rs 13,500 crore of public money from the PNB, using letters of undertaking. He […]
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India-China At Crossroads, Ties Depend on Beijing’s View On 1988 Consensus: EAM Jaishankar
In a key development, the External Affairs Minister of India, S Jaishankar while addressing the nation on Thursday, touched upon the country’s rough status quo equation with neighbouring state China, and the future course of action in respect to the same. Citing the 1988 consensus, from which China departed in […]
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‘Economic Peace’ With Israel Won’t Help Palestinians
An expert’s point of view on a current event. ‘Economic Peace’ With Israel Won’t Help Palestinians Last month, Gaza once again faced the full brunt of the Israeli war machine, which killed hundreds of Palestinians and injured thousands. The international community is responding, as it has in the past, by […]
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Indonesia Is Quietly Warming Up to China
An expert’s point of view on a current event. Indonesia Is Quietly Warming Up to China In late 2019 and early 2020, China and Indonesia were inching toward armed conflict. China’s coast guard and fishing militia were making continued incursions into Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone in the Natuna Sea, a […]
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Myanmar Pressure Campaign Stalls at the United Nations
Myanmar Pressure Campaign Stalls at the United Nations The international campaign to pressure Myanmar’s military putschists to relinquish power has run aground at the United Nations, amid growing resistance by the country’s Chinese and Southeast Asian neighbors against imposing an arms embargo and sanctions on the military junta. The United […]