One of India's most decorated officers told Newsweek "de-fusing this serious South Asian crisis would garner some brownie points" for Trump.

In his new book Fortune Seekers, economic historian Raman Mahadevan maps the rise of the Chettiars — and why their vast Southeast Asian network didn’t last.

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 11 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 25.