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Capital Latitude: The Age of Chokepoints
“The power to interrupt commercial or financial relations with any country … is the root cause of the influence or power position which a country acquires in other countries.” — Albert…
Rasita Vishnuram
Rasita Vishnu is an international relations and foreign policy analyst with a Ph.D. in International Studies. She is a Senior Fellow at BlueKraft Digital Foundation, and the author of a forthcoming book on India’s foreign policy.
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Diaspora
Capital Latitude: India and Japan Have Tapped the Bridge Long Enough
“The Pacific and the Indian Oceans are now bringing about a dynamic coupling as seas of freedom and of prosperity,” Shinzo Abe, “Confluence of the Two Seas,” address to the…
East Asia
Capital Latitude: BrahMos Goes East
“One tree alone cannot make a hill; three trees together make a high mountain.” – Vietnamese proverb Walk through Da Nang or Hanoi today, and it is not unusual to…
World
Capital Latitude: Trump, Xi, and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
|| “Peace and war are the two wheels of policy.” – Kautilya, Arthashastra || Donald Trump’s forthcoming visit to China does not signal a return to engagement-era diplomacy or a…
Defense
Capital Latitude: The Indo-Pacific Now Begins in the Gulf
“The rule of the sea is indeed a great matter.” – Thucydides For years, the Indo-Pacific was drawn as an eastern theater of power, with most attention fixed on the…
India
Capital Latitude: Where the Gulf Meets the Ocean
“Foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.” — Fareed Zakaria Just days ago, news broke that the United States and Israel had struck Iran, aiming to…
Community
Capital Latitude: Deals Not Diktats
“Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agree than to disagree.” — Dean Acheson In early August last year, President Donald Trump, in his usual…
Crime
Where Oil Meets the Orinoco Sky
“War has a momentum of its own… you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.” — George F. Kennan Over a city starved of…