As the world remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan faces a defining choice: preserve its non-nuclear principles and strengthen its moral leadership on nuclear disarmament, or dilute them at a moment when the nuclear threat remains dangerously real.
Tokyo's Island States Ocean Summit signaled a shift from ocean pledges to a practical delivery framework — with lessons for global governance far beyond the sea.
India's neighbours are no longer choosing between New Delhi and Beijing. They are leveraging both — turning geography, competition and strategic ambiguity into tools of national advantage, while forcing India to rethink how influence is earned and sustained.
Debroy and Sinha argue that unchecked AI threatens privacy and democratic norms, and that developing countries especially need coordinated regulation, transparency, and capacity-building to keep pace responsibly.
