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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

The India-Russia-China triangle: How the border clashes affect it

June 29, 2020

THE BACKGROUND Never in a position to break out of the subcontinent, India’s strategic goal in Asia, at least since independence has been to prevent one power bloc from monopolising the landmass. Russia in its USSR avatar and China on the other hand have always had dreams of dominating the...

India and America in the post Covid era

May 26, 2020

What have the characteristics of the bilateral India-US relationship been in the last 30 years since rapprochement started, and in what ways will the Covid pandemic change this? The answer is twofold–on the one hand, the themes of self-reliance combined with the need to prop up domestic manufacture will hurt...