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Prateek Joshi
Prateek Joshi
Prateek Joshi works as a research associate with VIF India, a New-Delhi-based public policy institution. Previously, he worked on a project with IDSA, a think tank funded by the Ministry of Defence. His research areas include Sino-India relations, Indo-Pacific, Indo-Pak ties and colonial frontier policy.

Despite the recent tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours, who engaged in an aerial dogfight in February, Imran Khan has welcomed his Indian counterpart’s landslide election win.

Continuing activity by hostile militant groups suggests that India’s responses to terrorist attacks, formed in 2016, cannot resolve the problem and new thinking may be required.

After bilateral relations hit a low point last year, New Delhi has realised there’s little to gain from a hostile relationship with Beijing. That doesn’t mean it won’t still hedge against China’s influence by nurturing stronger relationships with others in the region.

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