In US-China AI race, India’s place will depend on capabilities built at home

India should keep Chinese models out of government systems, critical infrastructure and sensitive data. Equally, avoid over-dependence on the American stack; June’s brief cut-off of foreign access to top American […]
China’s X factor, and why India needs its own narrative
C Raja Mohan writes: The ghosts of 1945 are being recruited for today’s contest over Asia

References to history are rarely innocent. The past is interpreted and reinterpreted to serve the politics of the present. Since returning to power, Trump has invoked US wartime cooperation with […]
AI is now a great-power game. That poses a test for India

Delhi should welcome any US-China agreement that reduces the dangers of AI. But it also faces three difficult questions
The middle-power question that New Delhi faces today

Where does India stand on the middle power conversation? India’s answer to this moment has been ambivalent. New Delhi is both tempted by the idea and resists it
Australia-India Underwater Domain Awareness (UDA) Cooperation: Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles (UUVs)

This report examines the development of uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) in Australia and India and the case for bilateral cooperation in the undersea domain. It argues that the two national ecosystems are complementary rather than competitive, and that a phased, capability-driven partnership that begins with benign and civil applications is more likely to endure than early collaboration in sensitive undersea warfare technologies.