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Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) members take part in a protest against the government for not providing them with essential safety kits and paying them minimum remuneration despite being frontline workers outside a primary health centre in Hyderabad, May 24, 2021, AFP India’s mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis may have dealt a blow to the South Asian nation’s big power aspirations. According to an article published in the magazine Foreign Affairs, the leaders of a coalition among Australia, India, Japan, and the United States met virtually last month. The...

Beijing’s Quad Quandary: Why China Fears Losing Bangladesh Beijing’s warning to Dhaka is drawn staunchly on concerns over how a “Quad plus Bangladesh” could hinder China’s South Asia policy and prove an advantage for India (and Japan) in their strategic competition. On May 12, in a sharp rebuke to Bangladesh, Beijing’s representative to Dhaka, Li Jiming, warned Bangladesh that their bilateral ties would undergo “substantial damage” if Dhaka joins or backs the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad). Comprising India, Japan, the United States, and Australia, the Quad has quick...

Like NATO, the Quad countries must all commit to defending each other economically if China retaliates against any member.

Why less may be more for India and China Updated: Updated: April 15, 2021 01:28 IST A conversation driven by hard talk and finding shared interests, even if modest ones, may be amply rewarding Share Article AAA A conversation driven by hard talk and finding shared interests, even if modest ones, may be amply rewarding “Lower the expectations” might not seem a very ambitious prescription for the immediate future of India’s troubled relations with China. It may, however, be just the right tonic to guide the way forward, as both countries seek a new equilibrium after a major rupture in rel...

By Donald Kirk THE UNITED STATES is forming what looks like the kind of alliance against China that American policy-makers have dreamed of ever since the victory of the Communist forces of Mao Zedong over the U.S.-backed Nationalist Chinese of Chiang Kai–shek more than 70 years ago. Always looking for ways to form a united coalition against the rising power of China, the U.S. has masterminded what’s called “the Quad” of four countries, including the U.S., Japan, India, and Australia. The Quad, for “quadrilateral security dialog,” is far from a militar...