India key to resisting the arc of autocracy
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in March said that Beijing and Moscow are forming an “arc of autocracy,” and that a peaceful world order would be threatened by an alliance between China and Russia. It was the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February that a Western leader has urged the world to take action from a geopolitical perspective in the face of the threat posed by the “Eurasian bloc” of Russia and China. At the beginning of the past century, Halford Mackinder proposed the geopolitical concept of a “World Island” consisting of the European, Asian a...