C Raja Mohan writes | Trump’s visit to Asia: Flux in US-China ties has consequences for Asian nations

Many worry Trump might sacrifice Taiwan or other Asian interests for a deal with China. Yet, signs from Trump’s Asia tour suggest continuity as well as adjustment
C Raja Mohan writes: Rise of the new peacemakers

Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and increasingly China, have inserted themselves into conflict resolution as Western power fragments and the UN weakens. Mediation has become the new language of […]
C Raja Mohan writes: In a multi-polar West, India’s opportunity

Europe is today increasingly ill at ease with Donald Trump’s America First nationalism. A loosely knit West offers India opportunities to seek multiple avenues of cooperation.
C Raja Mohan writes: On its 80th birthday, and after Trump, a question: Whose UN is it anyway?

The real question is not simply whether the US or China will dominate the UN, but whether middle powers like India can help craft a multilateralism fit for an age […]
C Raja Mohan writes: The West’s civil wars

In Europe and US, resentment against liberal policies of outsourcing manufacturing jobs abroad, while insourcing labour, has stoked the populist anti-immigration agenda.
C Raja Mohan writes: Xi, Putin and transhumanism: Who wants to live forever?

Slowing ageing and extending healthy lifespans could transform societies, producing older but more active populations. The social consequences of longevity research could be profound