Under the sea, for sake of strategy: Why foreign powers hold India’s digital pulse

A large, developing country, ambitious for growth and stature like India needs to look after four key securities: food, energy, market, and tech. In this pursuit, it can’t hope to depend on friends. Rather, it must cultivate allies – even global competitors – to realise its hopes without threat of interruption or interference.

This is critical in an age where the US has initiated a disruptive transformation of the global geopolitical structure, utilising taxes and sanctions to realign trade relationships, which will likely result in short-term national and financial market insecurities.