Asia Pacific

In May 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech in Sydney, Australia, in which he called on his Indian and Australian partners to unite in order to form a solid common front capable of counterbalancing—or at least limiting—China’s growing hegemony in the Pacific region. Japan, an Asian country to which the French president was nevertheless indirectly addressing his call for solidarity, pursues a complex policy in this area increasingly threatened by China, wh

Three months ago, the meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping took place during the G20 summit. On that occasion, Indonesian President Joko Widodo expressed his desire to play a mediating role in the face of the “risk of a new Cold War.” Before the incident involving Chinese balloons flying over American airspace, Indonesia warned of the danger of “dividing the world into several camps.” This was a striking statement for a country located at the junction of the Indian and Pa

Ranked third among the world’s richest individuals, Gautam Adani, with a fortune of $121 billion, overtook Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in March 2022. He is neither European, American, Chinese, nor Russian, but Indian. India, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi describes as the world’s largest democracy, is the country with the third-highest number of billionaires, behind the United States and China, with 166 wealthy individuals compared to only nine in the 2000s. While the expre