🇨🇳is delighted happy with 🇩🇪 Beijing visit this week, cf @noahbarkin here. In New Delhi, by contrast, this will have been greeted with many 🙄🙄s & further dented Europe's image as a reliable geo-strategic partner. A better 🇪🇺🇮🇳 plan 👇 ecfr.eu/article/rebo…

India's lengthy elections kick off today! So a slender excusie for this new @ecfr piece from @ManishaReuter looking at the chance of an 🇮🇳🇪🇺 reboot, after both sides have finished their polls. Basic point is that ..... ecfr.eu/article/rebo…

Big fan of the China Talk podcast, not least now having recorded an episode on India with the great @MohanCRaja, chaired as ever with huge enthusiasm by pod maestro @jordanschnyc. On a streaming platform near you soon, one imagines. 🇮🇳🇨🇳👊. podcasts.apple.com/g…

Interesting from @DavidLammy in @ForeignAffairs , fleshing out his "progressive realism" vision for Labour foreign policy. The "realism" bit seems right to me. Far more complex global environment than 1997. The main idea in the quote below..... www.foreignaffairs.c….

Critical mineral supply-chain de-risking, not so much. Striking chart from @business. "What’s becoming clearer, though, is the European Union and China risk slow-walking into a trade war as Beijing resists requests to open up its economy, triggering .. defense measures. "