Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief.
The highlights this week: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a six-day trip through the Asia-Pacific, reports suggest another round of U.S.-Iran talks could take place in Pakistan, and a prison riot in Sri Lanka leads to a government investigation.
Modi’s Asia-Pacific Tour
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a six-day trip through the Asia-Pacific this week. He arrived in Indonesia on Monday and Australia on Wednesday and will conclude his travel in New Zealand. The high-level engagements come on the heels of a summit that Modi hosted in New Delhi last week for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
India seems to be reasserting its commitment to engaging closely with the region at a moment of uncertainty. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which includes Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, hasn’t held a leaders’ summit for nearly two years. Under U.S. President Donald Trump, Washington’s approach to the Indo-Pacific is especially unclear.
