Indian Activist Passes Five Years in Pretrial Detention
Sept. 13 marked five years of incarceration without bail or trial for Indian activist Umar Khalid, who is detained on terrorism charges that appear politically motivated. On Sept. 2, the ...
Tag: Narendra Modi
Indian Commerce Minister Hopes for U.S. Trade Deal by November
The headlines have lately been filled with stories of rising tension between the U.S. and India, sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his insistence on India cutting back its ...
What the Modi-Xi Meeting Was Really About
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits China for the first time since 2018, search efforts are underway after a deadly ...
Modi, Lee, and Trump’s Nobel Prize Obsession
Although there are striking similarities between the geopolitics of the Indian subcontinent and the Korean Peninsula, the international relations community rarely pays attention to their parallel trajectories. Recent events provide ...
India Launches Challenge to Chinese Electric Vehicle Dominance
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated a factory in the town of Hansalpur that will manufacture an electric vehicle (EV) called the Maruti Suzuki e-Vitara. The factory is ...
Why India Should Not Walk Into the China-Russia Trap
You know a relationship is on the skids when one party refuses to answer the phone. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi did just that recently, according to reports in the ...
This Isn’t India-China Rapprochement
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi traveled to New Delhi this week, marking the first visit of a high-level Chinese official to the Indian capital since the two countries agreed to ...
India Says U.S. Arms Deals Still on Track, but No Compromise on Trade
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday repeated his vow to protect Indian farmers from competition with tariffs and trade barriers, even as President Donald Trump’s punishing retaliatory tariffs of ...
Is This Modi’s Moment of Reckoning?
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces down multiple challenges at once as the United States threatens high tariffs, former Bangladeshi ...
The U.S.-India Trade Spat Boils Over
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump imposes an additional 25 percent tariff on India, Bangladesh marks one year since mass demonstrations led ...
