C. Raja Mohan
Choppy waters, unsure navigator
This week’s gathering of the Indian Ocean leaders in Jakarta has drawn a mixed reaction. Optimists see the Jakarta summit of the Indian Ocean...
Fruits of patience
Strategic patience is a virtue in statecraft. But it is not about passive and endless waiting. It demands persistent pursuit of one’s goals and...
Getting down to work with Trump
At the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, the Chinese President Xi Jinping claimed leadership of the global economic order amidst the US...
Battling de-globalisation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was more direct in demanding that diplomacy serve economic interests of the nation.
As Rex Tillerson, until recently the head of...
Way forward as Trump turns America inward
In a powerful appeal to American nationalism and a clarion call to put “America First,” the new President of the United States Donald J...
Moscow and New DC
The invocation of the “foreign hand” to explain unexpected political developments is quite common in the subcontinent. But the last place in the world...
The myth of a political bond
India’s problem with China is that Delhi’s ideas of shared global interest in the multilateral domain have run into Beijing’s calculus on the regional...
Expand partnership with US, limit rifts with China
In the last few years, India has struggled to cope with Beijing’s political expansion, military modernisation and power projection in India’s neighbourhood.
As a rising...
The looming disruption
Thanks to the election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States, there is no longer an American consensus.
Troubles tend to come...
The odd triangle
It was no surprise that China strongly objected to the presence of the Dalai Lama at the Rashtrapati Bhavan a few days ago. In...
The challenge of automata
That the US president elect Donald Trump has spoken up against H-1B visas, which go mostly to Indian IT companies, is no surprise. Last...
The Trump effect is likely to reconfigure the region’s politic
During his campaign, Trump had questioned the costs of American
alliances and has demanded a redistribution of the defence burdens between the US and its...
The expansion of Sinosphere
It is not often that nations undertake big foreign policy shifts. US President Richard Nixon’s outreach to China in 1971 after a quarter century...