China and Strategic Realignments in South Asia

Bangladesh split with India, while Pakistan is looking in unfamiliar places for an ally against the Taliban.

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South Asia is in the throes of a major geopolitical realignment. In the east, Bangladesh is gravitating away from India following the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her pro-Indian regime. Meanwhile, in the west, Pakistan is in conflict with the Afghan Taliban, Islamabad’s ally for decades and ruler of Afghanistan since 2021. These […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari