New Quad signals bigger role for India in Middle East
With rapidly shifting geopolitical equations in the region, the foreign ministers of India, Israel, the US and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have launched a four-way international forum for enhancing economic and security cooperation, which is being hailed as a new Quad for the Middle East. The first meeting of the foreign ministers of the […]
India, EU review 2025 roadmap, agree to advance FTA talks
BRUSSELS: More than five months after their virtual summit, senior officials of India and the 27-nation European Union held a review meeting in Brussels and decided to intensify their cooperation in combating Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and accelerating global economic recovery. The 3rd India-EU Strategic Partnership Review was co-chaired by Ms. Reenat Sandhu, Secretary (West), […]
Quad set to grow stronger, more focus on economic than China
The Quad grouping of India, US, Japan and Australia is set to move beyond China fixation to diversify its agenda which will have more economic content rather than security and geopolitical, said eminent ex-US and Indian diplomats at an online conference. Five days after the first in-person Quad summit held in Washington on September 24, […]
Mapping the future of Quad
We are meeting at a time when the world order is under enormous stress and is rapidly mutating, generating new alignments and realignments. The Quad – the four-nation plurilateral grouping comprising the four major democracies – India, US, Japan and Australia – is the product of this prolonged geopolitical churning. The Quad nearly died a […]
A New Summit: Branding Quad as a force for global good
History was made on a pleasant afternoon in Washington DC as the leaders of US, India, Japan and Australia exuded democratic camaraderie, and vowed to fashion a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific and to play the role of “force of global public good,” in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words. With China listening and the world […]
The Quad Moment: Unpacking new geopolitical alphabet
The Quad Moment is finally here, with President Joe Biden going out of his way to host the first face-to-face summit of the leaders of the four like-minded democracies in Washington amid the persistence of the coronavirus pandemic in his country. Quad vaccines ‘Made in India’ Going by the buzz, the first in-person Quad summit […]
Quad, combating terror, Covid-19, Afghanistan top PM’s US agenda
Countering terrorism, combating the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, stabilising Afghanistan, forging new technology partnerships and strengthening the Quad cooperation will be among key issues that will figure on the agenda of meetings during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US. In a pre-departure statement ahead of his September 22-25 visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
AUKUS triggers diplomatic churn, India adopts strategic silence
In a dramatic move that has created ripples in the region and the international strategic community, the US, UK and Australia have forged a trilateral security partnership that aims at bolstering defence and security cooperation among the three democracies of the Indo-Pacific region. The announcement of “AUKUS” seems to have been strategically timed ahead of […]
With Taliban on mind, Modi asks SCO to forge template against extremism
By Shweta Aggarwal DUSHANBE/NEW DELHI: In pointed remarks aimed at the Taliban, Prime Minister Narendra Modi singled out radicalisation as the biggest threat to the region and exhorted the nine-nation SCO to forge a template to combat extremism. “I believe that the biggest challenges in this area are related to peace, security and trust-deficit and […]
Taliban concerns to top first India-Australia 2+2 dialogue
Moving the relationship beyond cricket and curry, India and Australia are poised to hold the inaugural 2+2 dialogue between their foreign and defence ministers in New Delhi that will focus on injecting greater strategic content into the multi-faceted bilateral partnership. The 2+2 dialogue between India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh […]