New Delhi, March 6 -- Highlighting the interconnected nature of modern warfare, foreign policy experts at the Raisina Dialogue 2026 stated that the ongoing conflict in West Asia is no longer a regional affair but one that is "bleeding together" with global security theatres, including the Indo-Pacific.

Speaking at a session titled 'Beyond Strategic Ambiguity: Rethinking Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait', Dhruva Jaishankar, Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) America, noted that the scope of the Middle East conflict is "obviously widening."

"From Cyprus, we have had drone strikes against British military facilities in Cyprus, so a European country was listed directly, obviously off the coast. And I think that, in ...