The fraught relationship between Asia’s two major powers makes former Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale’s recent book, The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India, both topical and invaluable. No other work, scholarly or otherwise, specifically examines China’s negotiating behavior with India with this level of analysis. Gokhale, who […]
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China Is OK With Interfering in Guinea’s Internal Affairs
China’s condemnation is something of a surprise, given that Beijing has predicated its foreign policy on the principle of noninterference since 1955—basically staying out of other countries’ “internal affairs,” whether that’s a rebellion, coup, or human rights abuses. China never truly abided by this principle—former Chinese leader Mao Zedong aided […]
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Are Indo-Russian Ties the Next Casualty of Great-Power Shifts?
All these shifts will be on full view this month. On Wednesday, Modi will host Putin and Xi at the BRICS summit, where the mood is likely to be a lot tenser than it was in 2014. Modi is also preparing to join U.S. President Joe Biden for an in-person […]
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Are Indo-Russian Ties the Next Casualty of Great Power Shifts?
All these shifts will be on full view this month. On Wednesday, Modi will host Putin and Xi at the BRICS summit, where the mood is likely to be a lot tenser than it was in 2014. Modi is also preparing to join U.S. President Joe Biden for an in-person […]
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Post-American Afghanistan and India’s Geopolitics
But New Delhi had no choice but to come to terms with the diminishing domestic political support in Washington for the so-called forever war and the inevitability of a post-U.S. Afghanistan. On the upside, New Delhi senses that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could significantly weaken the current strategic partnership […]
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How 9/11 Will Be Remembered a Century Later
Yet despite these unavoidable uncertainties, asking how 9/11 might be seen in 2101 is still a useful exercise because it helps place the event within a broader geopolitical context. I can think of at least two broad and radically different possibilities (plus a third wild card). Ironically, which possibility comes […]
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Argentina’s Unlikely Climate Push
If you would like to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: carbon-heavy Argentina hosts a climate summit , Venezuela’s opposition talks to the Maduro government, and Miss Universe El Salvador 2021 wants to legalize abortion. Welcome back to […]
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Can the United States and China Cooperate on Climate?
If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: U.S. climate envoy John Kerry urges climate cooperation in China, India imposes a lockdown in Kashmir , and Ethiopia’s aid blockade exacerbates a humanitarian crisis. Here […]
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The U.S. Has Left Afghanistan. What Now?
If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: The United States officially ends its longest war with the full withdrawal from Afghanistan , North Korea makes moves to boost its nuclear arsenal, and South […]
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Don’t Abandon Afghanistan’s Economy Too
Afghanistan is critically dependent on foreign aid. In recent years, it was not unusual for it to have received aid amounting to 43 percent of its GDP . That flow of funds has now been suspended, giving the West leverage. But if the West exercises pressure indiscriminately, it will pull […]