South Asia

Barack Obama’s recent trip to Asia was a disaster for US interests. Either his team is incompetent or there’s something they’re not telling us.

India’s president caused a political storm in Damascus with her comments on a Palestinian state. It’s a storm in a teacup.

Pakistan is in crisis. Overcoming this will mean completely rethinking long-held assumptions about what the country is meant to be.

India has a powerful claim to permanent UN Security Council membership. The next two years are its best chance to prove it.

High fertility rates risk turning India’s demographic dividend into a demographic disaster, reports Shreyasi Singh from New Delhi.

NATO has rightly resisted the temptation to press for a bigger global security role. Asian governments will likely be relieved.

Neoconservatives have urged Barack Obama to boost US defence ties with India to counter China. But the last thing the US needs is a polarized Asia, writes Robert Dreyfuss.

Defence co-operation between India and the United States is growing. But delays on two military deals could put the brakes on.

India proudly proclaims itself the world’s largest democracy. But a lack of real press freedom will ultimately hamper economic growth.

By publicly acknowledging the price Pakistan pays for its counterterrorism policy, the US is helping untie its leadership’s hands.

…argues Madhav Nalapat. But only if Barack Obama takes a leaf out of George W. Bush’s book and treats India as a partner.

The row over US attacks in Pakistan has highlighted uncertainties over the rules of engagement. Maybe this isn’t such a bad thing.