U.S.-China Dynamics in the Himalayas: The Looming Shadow of Indo-Pacific

Washington’s South Asia outlook has been watched keenly after America’s withdrawal from the Afghan war theatre that sucked its strategic attention and economic resources for two decades. One of the primary reasons for pulling out of the long-drawn-out war in Afghanistan was to devote America’s resources and attention to the more consequential competition with China in the Indo-Pacific. In this context, America’s new focus on continental and maritime South Asia is worth exploring for its import on political and economic orientations of the subcontinent.