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 writes: Great-power competition demands a first-principles foreign policy

Shifts in great-power relations, the emergence of wars and global crises — these are variables India cannot control. What it can drive is its own modernisation
US-Iran peace deal: A war Trump chose & lost

It is important to state the obvious lest we forget amid the news cycle tomorrow: Washington chose to fight an unnecessary war, and lost the war.
India + Korea: A Production Partnership

This report assesses the outcomes of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s three-day visit to India from 19 to 21 April 2026, the first state visit by a Republic of Korea head of state in eight years. It tracks the visit’s strategic frameworks, government-to-government agreements, business-to-business deals, and policy announcements, and reads them against the prior arc of the India-ROK Special Strategic Partnership.
Fighting on Borrowed Ground: Multi-Domain Operations and the Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace

This report is a follow-up to an earlier study, “Beyond the Kinetic,” by the same authors, which introduced the Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace as a way of understanding modern conflict.
How India must deal with Trumpian insults

Disrespect from the US President is not something to be ignored in the earnest hope that America after Trump will be more decent.