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27 November 2025

Indo-Pacific Strategic Churn: Challenges and State Responses

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Rajiv Bhatia explains how this book brings together perspectives on the geostrategy, geopolitics, and geoeconomics of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Edited by Chintamani Mohapatra, it features 16 essays by experienced yet young academics. It highlights how the world changed after 2020, the ‘Age of Polycrisis’, COVID-19, conflicts in West Asia and Europe, and other global flashpoints. The book offers analysis that seeks to reposition the Indo-Pacific as vital to India’s strategic interests.

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27 November 2025

Johannesburg G20 summit: advancing amidst anxiety

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The G20 Summit in Johannesburg ended on a widely-shared sense of satisfaction and achievement, with the Global South’s perspective well-articulated, but divergent from some in the Global North. Now the G20's challenge is to restore its unity and credibility by working toward reconciliation with its next president, the U.S. Can India enhance its credibility and influence as a North-South bridge-builder?

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27 November 2025

Japan and China row over Taiwan

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China’s attempt to discipline Japan over Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi’s statement on a Chinese attack on Taiwan threatening Japan’s security, may instead strengthen the very alliances Beijing hoped to fracture. By using symbolic economic instruments, invoking the UNSC, and amplifying nationalist messaging while avoiding mass public mobilisation, China signals displeasure without risking internal instability. Yet these same measures push Japan ever deeper into U.S.-aligned networks.

Website articles (12) Courtesy: Gateway House
27 November 2025

Stepping up Kirby-Packer-Murdochs’ India legacy

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Several Australian families and companies have had a deep impact on India, since the early days of its economic reformation – from telecom to entertainment. Now, with the two countries enjoined by a comprehensive bilateral trade agreement, it’s time to step it up and deepen common agendas on hard issues, from regulation on big tech to entertainment ecosystems to sports and stadium management.

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27 November 2025

Rise of the Davos Competitor

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U.S. health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. called the World Economic Forum a “billionaires’ boys club” imposing totalitarian controls. Indeed, since 1971, the elite platform shaped geopolitics. But its Western-centricism kept out the concerns of the rest. This gave rise to alternative forums, which look beyond financial agendas to the perspectives shaping the Global South. Here are 45 of biggest, half of which began just two decades ago.

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26 November 2025

Founding India’s Gateway House

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A former diplomat and a journalist came together in 2009 to build what would become Mumbai’s first foreign policy think tank – Gateway House. It is India’s first women-founded think tank, and among the few globally established by two women. In this conversation with Akshobh Giridharadas of USISPF, co-founders Manjeet Kripalani and Neelam Deo reflect on Gateway House’s origins and the epiphany that India needed to shape global conversations with its own perspective, one that extended beyond New Delhi.

Website articles (11) Courtesy: UNDP
20 November 2025

A G20 summit with African characteristics

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The G20 Summit in Johannesburg in November will close four years of developing countries holding the grouping’s Presidency. It has left a positive imprimateur on the G20. The next President, the U.S., will inherit a more diverse body, with equal attention being given to issues of the Global North and the Global South.

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20 November 2025

A Growth Budget for Sri Lanka

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After a remarkable recovery from a very deep crisis in 2022, Sri Lanka’s recent budget for 2026 consolidates economic stabilisation and introduces a few markers for further growth. But more needs to be done to embed a growth strategy and transform its economy to avoid further IMF austerity programmes.

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20 November 2025

Sanae Takaichi’s strong start

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The rise of Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister with firm conservative credentials, carries both symbolic weight and political controversy. Her early decisions suggest clarity of intention but also highlight the structural weaknesses and diplomatic sensitivities that will shape her tenure. To keep her ratings high, she has to stabilise her minority government at home, and manage the China, U.S. and ASEAN relationships with tact.

Website articles (9) Courtesy: Gateway House
13 November 2025

Election Diaries: Bihar 2025 Women, Welfare, Work

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Bihar’s 127 million people went to the polls over the past week. They have seen enough basic progress to decide whether they want a leader who can, over the next five critical years, take them beyond poverty, and progress in line with the rest of India. Will this seat of ancient Indian empires and two religions, advance its trajectory upward?