In this exclusive conversation with D.C. Dispatch, South Asian Herald’s special podcast, Sian Prior, Ph.D., shipping policy director at the Brussels-based advocacy group Seas at Risk, said the Arctic has moved from …
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Ceasefire and Corridor: Gaza Truce Revives the India–Middle East–Europe Plan
by Anand Patelby Anand Patel 7 minutes readFor two years, the Middle East has been a case study in how conflict unravels even promising economic ideas. The India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), announced with fanfare at the …
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India at the Core: Why Secretary Marco Rubio Framed the Century Around the Indo-Pacific
by Anand Patelby Anand Patel 5 minutes readOn September 11, 2025, when the Secretary of State Marco Rubio introduced Sergio Gor as the U.S. envoy-designate to India at his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing, he called …
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President Trump’s India Envoy Nominee Presses New Delhi to Halt Russian Oil Purchases
by Anand Patelby Anand Patel 5 minutes readSergio Gor, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to India, told US Senators on September 11, 2025, that stopping India’s purchases of Russian oil would be a top …
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Resetting India–US Relations: A Strategic Arctic Opportunity
by Anand Patelby Anand Patel 6 minutes readWhen India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shook hands with China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, the headlines wrote themselves: India …
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The U.S. AI Action Plan and India’s Strategic Moment in Emerging Tech
by Anand Patelby Anand Patel 6 minutes readThe Trump administration’s release of the U.S. AI Action Plan on July 23, 2025, is more than a domestic policy blueprint. It is a bold declaration of America’s intent to shape the …