The Diplomat

Issue 116 (July 2024)

Contents

1.  Indian Foreign Policy Under Narendra Modi: A Decade of Transformation 

2. China’s Vision for a ‘Multipolar’ Security Order 

3.  Japan Wants to Improve its Foreign Worker Policy, But Xenophobia Prevails 

4.  Can an Autocratic Modi Become a Team Player? 

5.  Explaining Vietnam and the Philippines’ Divergent South China Sea Strategies 

6.  Details and a Lack Thereof: The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway 

7.  Re-Thinking New Zealand’s Independent Foreign Policy 

8.  Asia on Edge: What MAGA Think Tanks Reveal About a Trump 2.0 Presidency 

9.  Germany’s Defense Engagement in the Indo-Pacific Is a Balancing Act 

10.  Taiwan’s LGBTQ Progress Under Lai Ching-te: From Rhetoric to Action