Lakhani in the Karavan Podcast: Kalsoom Lakhani of i2i Ventures

New Atlanticist Mar 31, 2025

Dispatch from Hong Kong: How the ‘geoeconomic city’ is weathering global headwinds

By Josh Lipsky, Ananya Kumar

From Chinese and US economic growth to stablecoin regulations, a recent visit to Hong Kong offered important insights for two Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center experts.
China Digital Currencies
Lakhani in the Karavan Podcast: Kalsoom Lakhani of i2i Ventures

New Atlanticist Mar 25, 2025

Starlink’s India launch is a crash course on New Delhi’s approach to tech sovereignty

By Trisha Ray

A recently announced partnership to deploy the Elon Musk-led company’s satellite internet in India offers a window into New Delhi’s “hybrid” approach.
Economy & Business India
Lakhani in the Karavan Podcast: Kalsoom Lakhani of i2i Ventures

New Atlanticist Mar 25, 2025

Reading between the lines of Taiwan’s new Quadrennial Defense Review

By Kitsch Liao

The recently released Quadrennial Defense Review offers a window into the Taiwanese military’s issues with prioritization, operational readiness, and manpower retention.
China East Asia

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In the News

Apr 18, 2020

Lakhani in the Karavan Podcast: Kalsoom Lakhani of i2i Ventures

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business Entrepreneurship

New Atlanticist

Apr 18, 2020

Kabul attack: Overseas Indian fighters haunt India’s interests abroad

By Shweta Desai

This is the first instance when IS has used an Indian national to spread terror on the handful of remaining Sikh residents in Kabul. The symbolism of an Indian fighter indiscriminately gunning down worshippers is not lost on India, which promises to provide citizenship to the religiously-persecuted Afghan Sikh community. The attack has brought home a haunting realization that Indian nationals who joined jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and the IS in Syria and Afghanistan pose a tremendous security threat and are likely to be used to attack Indian interests at home and abroad.

Afghanistan India

New Atlanticist

Apr 17, 2020

China’s COVID-19 statistics resemble horrific past

By Evanna Hu

The curious spikes in confirmed cases in China following changes in leadership or policy events evokes the terrible statistical manipulation and suffering of the Great Leap Forward.

China Coronavirus

New Atlanticist

Apr 17, 2020

Polls show concerning effect of Chinese coronavirus charm offensive in Italy

By Francesco Bechis

Italy has a geopolitical problem. An April 7 opinion poll showed for the first time that Italians look more to China than to the United States as a potential international partner. The SWG research institute captured an unprecedented situation in the long-term transatlantic friendship as when asked, "Who should Italy look more to develop their international alliances outside of Europe?" 36 percent of Italians indicated China, while only 30 percent chose their historic American ally.

China Coronavirus
Forward Defense

Report

Apr 17, 2020

Emerging technologies and the future of US-Japan defense collaboration

By Tate Nurkin and Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi

This report explores the drivers, tensions, and constraints shaping US-Japan collaboration on emerging defense technologies while providing concrete recommendations for the US-Japan alliance.

Defense Technologies East Asia

In the News

Apr 16, 2020

Lakhani’s company i2i mentioned in Pioneer’s Post on supporting start-ups to scale up in Pakistan

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business Entrepreneurship

In the News

Apr 16, 2020

D’Sola featured on SupChina’s podcast Sinica: China’s Venezuelan vicissitudes

By Atlantic Council

On April 16, 2020, Parsifal D’Sola was featured on an episode of SupChina’s podcast Sinica, “China’s Venezuelan vicissitudes.” D’Sola, along with Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn, discussed “China’s strategy in the resource-rich but economically devastated Venezuela.”

China Venezuela

MENASource

Apr 16, 2020

China’s soft power during the coronavirus is winning over the Gulf states

By Jonathan Fulton

As COVID-19 continues to batter the world, China has managed an impressive transition. A recent article in the New York Times notes that, through the short life of the coronavirus crisis, China has been able to reposition itself not as “the authoritarian incubator of a pandemic but as a responsible global leader at a moment […]

China Coronavirus

In the News

Apr 14, 2020

Cimmino in Spectator USA: Curbing China’s rise should be America’s top priority

By Atlantic Council

Global Strategy Initiative program assistant Jeffrey Cimmino argues the United States needs to prioritize curbing China’s rise. China’s human rights abuses, expansionist impulses, and mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic in its early stages show clearly that its authoritarian values are fundamentally incompatible with the rules-based order led by the United States and its allies for […]

China Coronavirus

SouthAsiaSource

Apr 14, 2020

Surveying opinions from rural India on the COVID-19 lockdown

By South Asia Center

India is now several week into the government-mandated lockdown intended to control the spread of COVID-19. Led by Non-Resident Senior Fellow Dr Edmond Fernandes, the CHD Group and the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center surveyed Indian citizens in rural Karnataka to capture the impact of the outbreak and lockdown on their access to public health services […]

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Trevor H. Rudolph

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David H. Young

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Afghanistan Conflict

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Emily E. Kim

Project Assistant

Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Korea Security & Defense

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Laura Updegrove

Nonresident Senior Fellow, GeoStrategy Initiative

GeoStrategy Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Politics & Diplomacy Security & Defense

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Shawn Creamer

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoStrategy Initiative Indo-Pacific Security Initiative

Security & Defense East Asia

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Kayla T. Orta

Nonresident Fellow

Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Arms Control East Asia
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