This is really quite flattering company to be in. Some of my own absolute favorites in the list below too 🇮🇳🤓📕👇

🇨🇳is delighted happy with 🇩🇪 Beijing visit this week, cf Noah Barkin here.

In New Delhi, by contrast, this will have been greeted with many 🙄🙄s & further dented Europe's image as a reliable geo-strategic partner.

A better 🇪🇺🇮🇳 plan 👇
ecfr.eu/article/reboot…

“The recently postponed bilateral summit will.. be rescheduled for early 2025.. an ideal setting to launch a new 5-year roadmap, & one which makes a more compelling & geopolitically realistic case for deeper EU-🇮🇳 ties that also address shared concerns over rising 🇨🇳 power.” 1/8

There is an urgent need to further develop the EU-India TTC. james crabtree Manisha Reuter explains why and how ⬇️

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Want to know what happens next in the Iran-Israel conflict? Highly recommend this podcast with Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم who explains the calculations of both sides, how this relates to Gaza and the risk of a regional war ft.com/content/18b009… via @ft

Big fan of the China Talk podcast, not least now having recorded an episode on India with the great C. Raja Mohan, chaired as ever with huge enthusiasm by pod maestro Jordan Schneider. On a streaming platform near you soon, one imagines. 🇮🇳🇨🇳👊.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/chi…

Progressive Realism will underpin The Labour Party's foreign policy approach.

It takes the world as it is. Not as we wish it to be. It is realist means for progressive ends.

Today I’ve published ‘The Case for Progressive Realism’ in Foreign Affairs 👇🏿
foreignaffairs.com/united-kingdom…

Chinese MFA announces upcoming visit by U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, saying China welcomes his visit. Antony Blinken Secretary Antony Blinken Spokesperson发言人办公室

Latest IISS News Japan pod /w Robert Ward, Veerle Nouwens 温丽玉, Alessio Patalano & Nick Childs was vg on this + many other things

Nick made the point that these multi-national flat-top ship exercises can be significant in deterrence terms.

Listen here 🇯🇵👇
iiss.org/en/podcasts/ja…

james crabtree Noah Barkin indeed. My attempt to avoid the disaster that James predicts. A long shot indeed: institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions…