Region | India and South Asia

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Perspectives:Asia | Australia’s pivot to India

PERSPECTIVES:ASIA | ANDREW CHARLTON  | India is on the rise to become the next global superpower, with a population expected to be larger than… Read More

Bridging the digital divide by enhancing effective digital finance usage among the poor | Part 1

RAHUL CHATTERJEE AND SHAWN HUNTER |  Rubina, a grocery shop owner in rural Munshiganj in Bangladesh, owns a basic feature phone. Her… Read More

What might Australia learn from the Nijjar affair and the breakdown in Canada–India relations?

IAN HALL | Justin Trudeau’s announcement that Canadian authorities suspect India had some role in the killing of Sikh separatist leader … Read More

India pushes China to the margins of the G20

IAN HALL | New multilateral agreements unveiled on the sidelines of the G20 show how India has been working hard to curtail China's strategic influence. Read More

The dangerous ‘cocktail’ of politics and business in Bangladesh

REZA MONEM | Bangladesh is scheduled to hold its next parliamentary election by January 2024. While the opposition parties led by Bangladesh Nationalist… Read More

Soft balancing and the slow demise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

IAN HALL | On July 4, 2023, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation virtual leaders’ summit. Much of the … Read More

Divided Indian diaspora in Australia tops concerns for Narendra Modi visit

IAN HALL | Narendra Modi arrives this week for an official visit to Australia. When he first came to Australia in November 2014,… Read More

Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 24 May

TESS NEWTON CAIN  |  Modi in PNG to co-host FIPIC III Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Papua New Guinea to co-host the… Read More

AUKUS sets sail in the Indo-Pacific

PETER LAYTON | Australia’s acquisition of a replacement for its Collins class conventional submarine fleet is proving remarkably complicated. The 2009 Australian Defence White… Read More

Trade talks mask growing tensions between India and Russia

IAN HALL | Talk of a new free trade agreement between India and Russia should not distract from the unravelling of their strategic… Read More

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