Christian Smith

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662 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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Talking Geopolitics · India & The New Anti-China Coalition · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

Apparently, he's visited about a hundred since he came to office.

What's the big deal about this?

One is this not just another trip to another country?

You you mentioned a a defence sort of pact there, George.

I mean, what does it actually mean though?

They're not i they're not exactly in an alliance or anything like that.

I mean i i in many respects is this the start of a longer process of of alignment between these countries?

We we haven't actually spoken, I don't think, about Indonesia before on the podcast.

That was an interesting aspect of of Modi visiting visiting there.

W why is that important in this picture?

The quad is still going, isn't it?

I in it in a in in his w however form you wanna describe it.

And the interesting thing, of course, is that with the quad, which we've talked about before on this podcast and and has has been a a somewhat popular topic of of conversation in sort of Pacific geopolitics over the past decade or so, or however long it's been going.

It's the India was always somewhat the loose link there, not because of India being bad or anything, but just because it wasn't as as signed up to things as particularly Japan, Australia and the US.

uh or were

I suppose what you're saying in some ways, George, is that this may be starting to change, that India has decided to join the party a bit more.

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I suppose if you if you I mean you talking about India and Japan's economies, they're interestingly very similar in terms of size, uh, but even if you put them together, they're still only about half, very roughly, of what China's is.

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