Having had the opportunity to partner with Ksenia Shaykhutdinova at WSJ for this stellar video piece, here is a crisp explanation of China's construction activity in Bhutan along with valuable insights by Robert Barnett
- something you shouldn't miss !

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Like many democracies, India will sometimes need to kill terrorists in overseas safe-havens—but the Nijjar blowback shows why there must be laws and norms even for assassins, I argue in ⁦ThePrintIndia⁩ theprint.in/opinion/securi…

Outstanding!

I was doing the excel work to show this, too, but I’m happy to have been beaten to it. The Boeing doomers were manipulating you

It was intentional. There is always some group that will lie to your face if they think it helps them

Kudos Shreyas Shende & Rudra C -- the world needs to know more about India's intelligence services, and this will be a foundational account.

This is hilariously dispiriting but also inaccurate. Everyone knows that terrorists use in-line citations.

Hahaha. If the Five Eyes were really bent on “defanging” RAW, you really think a WaPo scoop is how they’d do it?

Well, I guess that’s that.

Who are India’s experts on America? The ones who have done rigorous research, written books or articles, understand the culture?

New Yorker 11 Apr 2024

Who are the camera-shy goras?

This is pretty much the definitive centrist critique of Netanyahu’s war.

Good. Dinakar Peri reports the deal is for 3x batteries, each of which (according to BrahMos website) has 3-6x mobile launchers. Meanwhile, the US this week deployed 500km missiles to Luzon for an exercise. defensenews.com/land/2024/04/1…

It’s still absolutely wild to me that Mountbatten was Viceroy of India, then Governor General of India, and then went back as a 2* to command a cruiser squadron in the Med.

Ahead of #IndiaElections2024 , my Chatham House research paper takes a step back to look at what India’s democratic credentials say about its foreign policy and relations with the West. Here are some of the key takeaways: chathamhouse.org/2024/04/how-in…

Alongside management of the immediate crisis, India (esp its military) should be taking note of conflict dynamics. Especially the centrality of long-range strike, which PLA has invested in even more. What (practical, feasible) lessons can india learn from this?