ISDP Voices

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent visit to India has been seen as a cautious step towards the gradual normalization of strained bilateral ties. Yet, it was his subsequent engagement in Kabul for the sixth China–Pakistan–Afghanistan trilateral dialogue that signaled a more consequential trend; the steady evolution of Beijing’s South Asia strategy. The meeting gained […]

Alzheimer’s disease represents one of the most formidable health challenges of our time, casting a shadow over millions of lives worldwide. The global burden of this neurodegenerative condition is staggering, with current estimates indicating that 57 million people worldwide are living with dementia, a figure that threatens to nearly triple to 139 million by 2050. […]

As tensions intensify across East Asia, the probability of a dual contingency—a Chinese invasion of Taiwan alongside a North Korean assault on South Korea—can no longer be dismissed as hypothetical. For U.S. allies Japan and South Korea, the challenge is how to prepare for simultaneous high-end conflicts without becoming strategically overstretched. One overlooked source of […]