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“The strikes on Iran accelerate a dynamic already in motion.  There could be a quiet “scheduling postponement” if either side calculates that the optics of Mr. Trump staying home outweigh the optics of showing up in Beijing, said Mr. Lin.

Overview Last week, New Delhi hosted the India AI Impact Summit 2026, a five-day global convening on AI that drew unprecedented international participation from stakeholders across the board including governments, multilateral organizations, and members from the civil society and industry. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally inaugurated the Summit on February 19, marking it as

The Supreme Court, on February 20, ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by imposing sweeping tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The decision will have major implications on the Trump administration’s economic policymaking, the United States’ relationships with trading partners, the dynamic between the executive and the legislature, and for

What Happened Earlier today, the India AI Summit’s third day centered on connecting research with real-world applications through the Research Symposium on AI and its impact. With IIIT-Hyderabad as the knowledge partner, the symposium convened leading academics, researchers, think tanks, and policymakers from India, the Global South, and the wider international community. The discussions focused

To understand the future of AI, businesses should look at not just to boardrooms, but crowded, multilingual, entrepreneurial spaces of the Global South. New Delhi’s AI Summit will reflect that energy and innovation in governance models.  Over the past decade, India has grown progressively more confident in articulating its own vocabulary of technological and economic governance.

In December 2025, The Asia Group (TAG) launched its inaugural GeoCommercial Strategy survey[i] to develop an understanding of how geopolitical trends are affecting and shaping business. The survey focused not just on what is affecting business but how businesses are responding and thinking about the future. These are the top five takeaways for the road

“The old world is gone, clearly. But what is the new world? We don’t know yet,” said Zhu Min, a well-respected Chinese economist and former deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund. Zhu made the comment when asked about his impressions of the World Economic Forum, held last week in Davos, Switzerland. This year,

As winter snows begin to melt along the Himalayas this spring, Indian and Chinese troops will once again start actively patrolling their respective positions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) — the 2500-mile disputed boundary line between the two Asian neighbors. The disputed LAC — and the strategic mistrust it symbolizes — remains front

  It is entirely possible that 2026 will be the most consequential year in American Asia policy in recent decades. President Donald Trump’s planned April trip to Beijing and subsequent meetings with Xi Jinping will attempt to reshape almost a decade of bipartisan competitive approaches to the PRC, with significant second and third order consequences

In the backdrop of the U.S. National Security Strategy prioritizing the Western Hemisphere, American military action in Venezuela, U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts at rapprochement with China and Russia, and the administration’s inconsistent relationships with treaty allies and partners in Europe and Indo-Pacific, there is intensified speculation about whether the world is heading towards a