The New Architects of the Indo-Pacific
No treaty, no bloc, no alliance language — just trade that doubled in two years, submarines docking in Australian ports, and a working relationship built one agreement at a time.
For most of the postwar era, the map of Asian power ran through a familiar set of capitals: Washington, Beijing, Tokyo. India sat, geographically and strategically, off to the side—a subcontinental power preoccupied with its own neighborhood, its relationships with Australia and New Zealand cordial but thin, sustained more by cricket, curry houses and Commonwealth nostalgia than by any shared strategic project. That era is over. In the space of roughly a decade, and with startling acceleration in just the last five years, India has stitched itself into the economic and security architecture…
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