India’s Hollow Ambitions: A Regional Bully’s Decline Amid a Fading Quad
In the dim-lit halls of London on June 10, 2025, U.S. and Chinese negotiators forged a truce, prying open China’s chokehold on rare earth exports while exposing the crumbling facade of India’s global pretensions. As U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick hailed a framework to ease triple-digit tariffs, India—self-styled as a $4 trillion titan—stood sidelined, its…