Vaidyanathan said geoeconomics ultimately boils down to economic power. “Trade negotiations, tariffs and supply chains are all decided by the underlying strength of an economy—what a country produces, what others need and how competitive it is,” he said, citing China’s manufacturing scale and the US’s consumption-led $30 trillion economy as examples.India, he said, is now asserting its own strength. “From a $1.5 trillion economy some years ago, India is already close to $4 trillion. That growth story is pl ...