In this episode of WorldView with Swasti, Dr. Swasti Rao, Consulting Editor and foreign policy expert, speaks with Robert Ward, Director of Geoeconomics & Strategy and Japan Chair at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, about the shifting balance of power in Asia.
Trump is in Asia to clinch a trade deal with China and get favourable deals with South Korea and Japan.
With Trump’s comeback, US traditional allies find themselves recalibrating. Japan under new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, caught between Washington’s economic pressures and the need to sustain regional stability— has to deliver on her promises
The conversation explores how Trump’s unpredictable diplomacy and his complicated relationship with Prime Minister Modi could reshape the future of the Quad, the strategic partnership between India, Japan, Australia, and the United States.
Together, Swasti and Ward unpack the economic anxieties shadowing China, the questions surrounding Taiwan’s security, and the urgent need for renewed purpose in the Indo-Pacific alliance system.