China

GoPro BV informed investigators it lacks downstream transaction details, prompting NIA to seek judicial assistance from China through diplomatic channels to establish chain of custody and evidentiary linkage of the seized device.

With the Teesta dispute unresolved since 2011 due to West Bengal’s objections, China’s proposed basin management role could establish a sustained technical presence near India’s eastern frontier, complicating hydrological negotiations and altering regional strategic dynamics.

The National Green Tribunal has cleared the ₹90,000-crore Great Nicobar project, citing its strategic importance in countering China.

India's role as China's long term counterweight in the Indo Pacific is crucial to the United States, which is currently preoccupied with its own internal changes and international obligations. The containment approach Washington has painstakingly developed over the past ten years would be undermined by a détente between Beijing and New Delhi.