Diplomacy & statecraft · the emissary's file
In the Kanda Puranam, the commander sends Veerabahu to the enemy's court before committing to battle — diplomacy first, force after, full knowledge of the field before either. This file works the same beat: summits, embassies, alignments and the economics of security, covered before they become fronts.
At the BIMSTEC security chiefs' meeting in Delhi, India's NSA told Myanmar's counterpart plainly that its soil must not host anti-India insurgency, arms smuggling or infiltration — pressure on a neighbour whose ungoverned spaces have become the Northeast's biggest external security problem.
NATO's first summit in Ankara locked in €70 billion for Ukraine in 2026 with matching commitments for 2027, saw Trump offer Ukraine a licence to build Patriot interceptors, and launched a $40 billion, five-year drone and counter-drone push.
Pakistan's 276th Corps Commanders' Conference pledged 'all measures necessary' to secure the country's share of Indus waters, formally binding the army to a dispute that began when India put the 1960 treaty in abeyance.
The weeklong state funeral for the supreme leader killed in the war's opening strike leaves Iran's transition — and a fragile US-Iran peace process — resting on a successor the public has not seen.
A cascading-crisis exercise under President Lai Ching-te confronted officials with a Chinese blockade, a strong earthquake, hijacked broadcasts and a bank run striking together — a sign of how seriously Taiwan now treats invasion.
At their 16th annual summit in New Delhi, India and Japan unveiled their first-ever defence co-development project, a joint economic security declaration and a ¥10 trillion investment target — deepening the Indo-Pacific's democratic axis.
Construction of the world's largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo is moving fast near the Arunachal border. The choices India makes while the concrete is still being poured will shape the Brahmaputra for decades.
The charge sheet against a former DRDO lab chief describes a Pakistani honey-trap that reached classified missile data — forcing decisions on how India vets and watches the scientists holding its most sensitive secrets.
Pakistan says its 29 June border operations killed at least 29 fighters; the Taliban government counts 36 civilian dead — irreconcilable tallies from the heaviest acknowledged cross-border action in a fortnight.
