In South Asia’s naval realm, new U.S.-India framework risks disturbing that balance by having advanced technology flows and blue water operational dependencies
The announcement on October 31, 2025, of a new ten-year
Defense Framework
between the United States and India at Kuala Lumpur ...
... throughout most of continental Eurasia is the high degree of autonomy that states located there have in making foreign policy decisions. This does not mean that competition or even armed conflict between them is impossible – the relationship between India and Pakistan is an example. However, given that most Eurasian countries base their foreign policies on their own considerations, rather than seeing them in the context of those of other major players, it suggests that such competition can be reliably ...
... reality began to change. Despite all the caution in the Ukrainian issue and the reluctance to get involved in the “Russian rebellion”, the key powers of the world majority responded to the threats of the stick with polite but cold firmness. China and India continue to cooperate with Russia. Moreover, there are rudimentary signs of rapprochement between Beijing and New Delhi. Their relations are too burdened with problems and contradictions to expect quick breakthroughs. However, even such small steps ...
... 2025
Report No. 99 / 2025
The following report focuses on the Middle Eastern policies of extra-regional actors and their transformation in changing conditions. It concentrates on studying the strategies pursued by Russia, the U.S., the EU, China and India in the Middle East. The report also examines how Middle Eastern countries perceive extra-regional actors as they aspire to build pragmatic and balanced relationships with external partners.
Extra-Regional Actors in the Middle East
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... network of partnerships and security alliances—by promoting interoperability and its warfighting capabilities. The quadrilateral cooperation mechanism, known as the
Quad
, is a manifestation of this approach based on a minilateral grouping among U.S., India, Australia, and Japan. Shared interests, democratic values, and strong people-to-people ties underpin this partnership. Although the Quad’s agenda seemed opaque since its inception,
evolving
to cater traditional security threats, the member states ...
... barrier. For the U.S., this is a chance to recalibrate trade policies, leveraging BRICS' diverse strengths—China's scale, India's tech innovation, Brazil's resources, and the UAE's hubs—to access new markets with improved, mutually beneficial tariffs.... ... partner network (Algeria, Nigeria, and beyond) signal BRICS openness to inclusive growth, not exclusionary dominance.
For the USA, embracing this bloc means amplifying its global reach, not relinquishing it—trading with a powerhouse that thrives on entrepreneurial ...
... globally. The U.S.-led new economic order produced enormous economic output, societal change but also new concerns. China’s remarkable rise was the product of the post-war economic order. China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, other Asian tigers, and India have developed, leaving their “poor country” status behind to become great major powers within the international system. The U.S. also achieved tremendous economic growth, establishing a technological monopoly until China recently started challenging ...
... RAS. Svetlana Gavrilova, RIAC Director of Programs, moderated the session.
During the first session, the presentation of the RIAC report, “Extra-Regional actors in the Middle East”, was held. The experts discussed regional strategies of Russia, USA, EU, China and India. Speakers in this session were the report authors: Alexander Aksenenok, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-President; Alexander Lomanov, Acting Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Primakov Institute ...
In Paris the European Union managed to find a mutually acceptable compromise with the Global South, India turned out to be able to overcome its frictions with China, and only the US and the UK preferred to challenge the emerging global AI consensus
Conventional wisdom suggests that these days the only really big fight around AI takes place between ...
We will see a trend of increasing pressure from the US on India and Indian companies to increase barriers and costs for trade with Russia
One of the goals of large-scale sanctions against Russia after the start of the special military operation (SMO) was the isolation of the Russian economy in terms of trade ...