Modern wars need a new grammar
The conditions under which the old vocabulary operated have fundamentally changed
Expert Explains | As Trump claims ceasefire on ‘life-support’, why US-Iran crisis is far from over
The differences between Washington and Tehran remain the same as in April: over Iran’s nuclear enrichment rights, the fate of its existing enriched stockpile, its new control over the Strait […]
C Raja Mohan writes | Elon Musk, the robot revolution and a dominant China: Will India be left behind in the embodied AI race?
Self-reliance rhetoric is no substitute for strategy here. Unlike China, India cannot isolate its robotics ambitions from the world; its near-term task is to combine international collaboration with the patient […]
Not West vs rest, India’s challenge is how to navigate within West itself
Where many in Delhi’s foreign policy community see an irreconcilable contradiction between the pursuit of strategic autonomy and partnership with the West, China demonstrated the art of transcending it — […]
C Raja Mohan writes: In navigating US and China, Japan is imagining a new Asia story
Tokyo is not breaking from its One China policy. But it has increasingly signalled that a military conflict over Taiwan would have direct consequences for Japan
C Raja Mohan on Marco Rubio in India: Why Delhi obsesses over Washington
Unlike the US, the Indian elite has little social intimacy or political familiarity with Russia or China. There is only the G-to-G relationship and the coded diplo-speak associated with it