As global powers edge toward confrontation, India maintains a careful equilibrium, firm with adversaries, pragmatic with partners, and steady in a volatile neighbourhood.

The global order is increasingly defined by confrontation, not cooperation. The United States and China are locked in a prolonged contest for supremacy, a “cold confrontation" where technology, trade, and territory form the new battlegrounds.

For India, this shifting landscape is both opportunity and challenge. It finds itself between two great power rivalries and two volatile neighbours, navigating the turbulence of a nascent India-U.S. trade war, an emboldened China on its borders, and a desperate Pakistan lashing out after the setbacks of Operation Sindoor.

India’s strategic posture today rests on calibrated balance

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