A new age of competition demands new rules.(AI generated image.) US Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau’s recent statement at the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi —“We won’t repeat the China mistake with India”—signals that Washington views its past openness to China as a strategic error, one it intends to avoid with New Delhi by imposing stricter reciprocity, technology safeguards, and market protections in any deepening partnership. This shifts the terms under which India can leverage US...

Under President Donald Trump, the US is determined to reverse the growing global opinion about its decline. In the span of nine weeks between January and February 2026, the United States seized a foreign head of state from his own capital, escalated a bombing campaign against one of the world's most militarized states, and watched its president declare America was "reasserting power." The word choice was telling. You do not reassert what you securely possess. The flurry of military action, in...

What connects the Jamaat in Bangladesh to a rift between Saudi Arabia and the UAE on Yemen, an Egyptian blogger in the UK, and an appointment by New York's new mayor Zohran Mamdani? The flag of the Muslim Brotherhood with the words, " Allah (God) is our objective, the Prophet (Muhammad) is our leader, the Quran is our constitution, Jihad is our way, and dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope", written in Arabic. The Muslim Brotherhood’s ideological and organizational ecosystem is...