Kanti Bajpai

Nov 22, 2024 | almendron.com | Kanti Bajpai

In late October, just before the U.S. presidential election, India-China relations turned a corner. In the first of two sudden developments, India announced on Oct. 21 an agreement with China on patrolling rights in Depsang and Demchok in eastern Ladakh along the two countries’ contested Himalayan border. These had been denied to India after a deadly military clash in the nearby Galwan Valley in June 2020.

Nov 20, 2024 | foreignpolicy.com | Kanti Bajpai

China India In late October, just before the U.S. presidential election, India-China relations turned a corner. In the first of two sudden developments, India announced on Oct. 21 an agreement with China on patrolling rights in Depsang and Demchok in eastern Ladakh along the two countries’ contested Himalayan border.

Oct 25, 2024 | indianexpress.com | Kanti Bajpai

The BRICS Summit, and summits all over the world, are theatre in this sense. Their performance is a demonstration of their power and legitimacy, and it is a signalling. Much has already been written and more will be written about the Kazan summit and what it achieved. Far more important than anything of substance in Kazan were three performances. The first performance is the staging of BRICS.

Dec 23, 2023 | foundingfuel.com | Pramit Pal Chaudhuri |Vivek Y. Kelkar |Kanti Bajpai |G Venkat Raman

Events That Shaped Our World in 2023 At Founding Fuel, we posed a series of provocative questions—curated in partnership with former journalist and digital entrepreneur Jay Vikram Bakshi—to some of the world’s foremost thought leaders and asked them to write their inquiries on some of the crucial subjects of our times. They accepted. Through December 2023, we will unveil their insights, one groundbreaking article at a time.

Dec 18, 2023 | foundingfuel.com | Kanti Bajpai

[U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Erica Bechard, via Flickr. CC By 2.0 Deed] The answers to the two questions are: no and no. The US is not in strategic retreat and a rising China does not have the capability to dominate this space for the foreseeable future. The region from Djibouti to the Solomon Islands is a huge space, and the US has commitments right across the world. It will sustain these in the face of growing Chinese power.