South Asia
Reports
Webinar: Will COVID-19 reverse regional connectivity? Perspectives from South Asia
Launch & Panel Discussion | Sambandh: Reconnecting India and the Region
Foreign Policy & Security Seminar | Nepal, India and the Himalayan connectivity challenge
Tanvi Madan
Director - The India Project
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy
Madiha Afzal
David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
On December 15, Tanvi Madan moderates a session on the geopolitics of technology at the 2020 Global Technology Summit.
It’s a possible geopolitical gang-up against China. We need to rally the democratic world together. It cannot be a race to the bottom like a new Cold War... [India] wants the US to have ‘a Goldilocks approach’ for putting pressure on China. Not to press too hard to make the situation go out of control and not too little to be ineffective in containing China.
The Biden team understands that lecturing India publicly or threatening it publicly will not go down well, and will not achieve any change that they want to see... I suspect you might have a Biden Administration that is more likely to bring these issues up privately [than the Trump Administration]. But I think publicly, you’ll see a continuation of what we saw both Obama and Trump do, which is alluding to these issues through talking about the importance for the world of India as a diverse, tolerant democracy.
The Biden team understands that lecturing India publicly or threatening it publicly will not go down well, and will not achieve any change that they want to see... I suspect you might have a Biden Administration that is more likely to bring these issues up privately [than the Trump Administration].
