When China deploys warships to the Taiwan Strait or when it funds a port in Hambantota or finances a railway through the Sahel, the world notices. But when Beijing rewires how populations think, what they fear, and who they trust, the world largely looks away. This is Cognitive Warfare, the world's most consequential battlefield of the 21st century, the one that's least understood. Illustration by The Geostrata China calls it ‘public opinion warfare,’ which is one of the thre

The India-ASEAN narrative has evolved from a position of optimism in 2017 as the dialogue partnership turned 25, to a narrative of resurgence in 2022, and finally, the narrative of strategic repositioning and imperative reclamation as of today. What started as an executionary mechanism to India’s Look East Policy has now given rise to a regional partnership that has withstood geopolitical tremors and a systemic dismantling of the global order.