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India and Japan are redefining Indo-Pacific minilateralism through development cooperation, quality infrastructure, digital public infrastructure and capacity building—offering the Global South a more transparent and sustainable pathway to growth. by Hridbina Chatterjee The rapid reconfiguration of the Indo-Pacific geopolitical architecture has established this maritime domain as the premier arena of twenty-first-century statecraft. Within this contested environment, minilateralism has...

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited Sri Lanka from September 8–10, 2026 — the first such visit in 38 years. During the trip, India and Sri Lanka signed three defence MoUs covering L70 gun upgrades and National Defence College cooperation, and discussed a joint Maritime Domain Awareness system, drug-trafficking cooperation, and India's $450 million Cyclone Ditwah relief package under Operation Sagar Bandhu. By Utkarsh Garg Thirty-Eight years is a long time in geopolitics. When...

Xi Jinping’s return to India after nearly seven years marks more than a diplomatic visit. Against the backdrop of the 2020 border crisis, BRICS and intensifying US-China competition, the meeting could signal a cautious recalibration of India-China relations. By Samantha Karmakar The return of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India after nearly seven years is not simply a revival of summit diplomacy; it is a carefully choreographed encounter between two powers whose relationship has been...