Japanese PM in India on 3-day visit; China offers first official glimpse of J-36 jet; more

The latest edition of Statecraft covers Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's maiden three-day visit to India for the sixteenth India-Japan Annual Summit. The leader is set to discuss expanding security cooperation, the free and open Indo-Pacific framework, and a potential direct yen-rupee trade settlement. In other major developments, China offered the first official glimpse of its secretive J-36 sixth-generation fighter jet, escalating the race for air dominance in the Indo-Pacific region against the United States' F-47 programme. Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court delivered a crucial ruling on President Donald Trump's executive order targeting birthright citizenship, a move that impacts millions of immigrants, including Indian expatriates in the green card backlog. The bulletin also highlights ongoing diplomatic talks in Doha regarding frozen Iranian assets following US-Iran military tensions, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's continued warnings against Iran and Hezbollah.