A careful beginning India and the United States have announced a framework for an interim trade agreement. It’s a first step that could, over time, lead to a free trade deal. The framework focuses on a few practical goals: lowering selected tariffs, improving market access, and reducing long-standing frictions. India will cut or remove tariffs on several U.S. industrial goods and some food and...
The European Union released its Joint Communication on a New Strategic Agenda with India this September, a significant move to shape a stable, multi-polar order. For the EU, this is a comprehensive and high-confidence offer grounded in its regulatory power. For New Delhi, the process is both promising and a rigorous test of its strategic autonomy, regulatory adaptability, and negotiating agility...
A New India on the Global Stage This is an India determined to play on the big stage, even changing the stage itself where necessary to advance its interests. I picked up Why Bharat Matters with keen interest, drawn by Dr S. Jaishankar’s reputation for candid diplomacy—such as his remark that Europe needs to rethink its global perspective. I anticipated a book that would reject conventional...
