Publications
The End of Free Shipping: Decoding the Global Elimination of the De Minimis Exemption
What Happened? The de minimis exemption, once designed to simplify customs procedures, is now under scrutiny as various countries around the world are either reconsidering or removing this exemption, which allowed duty-free import of low-value goods. Hints can be drawn from...
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Capitalizing on the Reciprocal Reset: How the New US-India Trade Agreement Alters Asia-Pacific Shipping Corridors
The ongoing US-India Trade Agreement is pivotal not only for the reduction of tariffs; the agreement will also redefine global supply chains. "Geography is destiny," said Napoleon Bonaparte, a maxim that has also influenced the world of economics and trade. Historically, trade...
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Mini-India In The Indian Ocean: How Mauritius Fits Into India’s Maritime Strategy And Diaspora Diplomacy
Strategic upgrade and projects od India-Mauritius. During the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March 2025, with signing of the India-Mauritius Joint Vision for an Enhanced Strategic Partnership the bilateral relations with Mauritius enhanced to strategic partn...
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Chabahar port’s strategic importance for India
What happened? India marked a significant 10-year contract with Iran signing to operate the Shahid Beheshti Terminal at Chabahar Port, in May 2024. That provides direct land and sea connectivity with Afghanistan and The Central Asia, the extended neighborhood. The Us ...
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Hunger as a Weapon How Russia Turned the Black Sea Grain Corridor into a Tool of War
WHAT HAPPENED? The Day the Grain Stopped Moving There is a detail about the Russia-Ukraine war that gets surprisingly little coverage given how consequential it has been — and that is what happened to global wheat the week Russian tanks crossed the border. ...
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The AI Compute Divide : How Sovereign AI Infrastructure is Reshaping Global Tech Dependencies.
Historically, for tech driven systems majorly all countries depended on the US, but as the technology tends to become more advanced many new countries like Japan, China entered the race of technology infrastructure development which shifted from hardware and software to more s...
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The Geography of Bottlenecks - Choke Points in Maritime Trade : How narrow waterways dictate global prices
“Geography is the mother of strategy”, said by naval historian AT Mahan explains the importance of the maritime choke points. The statement now justifies the strategic and economic importance of choke points like the Suez Canal, Strait of Hormuz and Strait of Malac...
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From Seabed to Cyberspace: Why Undersea Cable Warfare Is the Most Dangerous Un-legislated Domain in Geopolitics Today
What happened ? Picture this. You wake up one morning and your phone has no internet. Your UPI app will not load. Your office cannot connect to its servers abroad. The bank's system is running slow. Nothing is visibly broken. No storm, no power ...
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DEBT , DEPENDENCY & DOMINANCE : Is China's String of Pearls a Strategic Stranglehold on South Asia?
What happened ? China initially after World War 2 started developing itself through opening markets, strengthening its military, increasing and initiating healthy relations with other nations. It made China one of the largest economies of the world. Ch...
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