Foreign Policy & Security
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Building a U.S.–India Sports Partnership

By Taruka Srivastav

For American policymakers, a sports partnership with India is an opportunity to expand commercial engagement, strengthen educational partnerships, advance sports governance, and deepen people-to-people ties with one of the world’s fastest-growing sporting markets.

Building a U.S.–India Sports Partnership
Energy & Climate
ORF America
Can Sodium-Ion Batteries Diversify the Global ...

By Suhani Jaggi

Sodium-ion’s technical and economic benefits are real, but its strategic value depends on supply chains deliberately designed to reduce dependence on any single supplier.

Can Sodium-Ion Batteries Diversify the Global Battery Supply Chain?
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
Brazil’s Election Highlights Social Media ...

By Andre Nicola and Caroline Arkalji

As political campaigns increasingly depend on digital platforms to reach voters, private technology companies have gained considerable influence over how political information is distributed. At the same time, electoral authorities often lack the tools to investigate their decisions.

Brazil’s Election Highlights Social Media Enforcement Challenges
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
India and the United States Step Up Their ...

By Ninad Kashyap

The U.S. and Indian approaches to Central Asia are more complementary than competitive: the United States can supply capital, technology, and security, while India supplies development, proximity, and a non-Western alternative.

India and the United States Step Up Their Engagement with Central Asia
Technology Policy
ORF America
India’s Private-Public Space Industry Takes Off

By Pradeep Nair

While the Indian state is now deliberately making room for private firms, the boom in India’s space sector also shows how closely the state and private sector are tied together. The Indian government is at the same time a regulator, source of technology, customer, and investor.

India’s Private-Public Space Industry Takes Off

April 2025

UK, India Could Be Relative Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff War

UK, India Could Be Relative Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff War

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Trump’s April 2 announcement has already roiled financial markets, and the global economy will continue to be adversely affected both by the implementation of tariffs and by uncertainty as negotiations proceed. But while there will be no immediate winners, some parties appear relatively better off.

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

By Jeffrey D. Bean and Andreas Kuehn

Looking ahead, as the Department of Defense strives to incorporate and utilize more AI chips, it will need to secure access to leading nodes for edge chips and the confidence in pathways to use greater allocations of secure cloud services for advanced computing.

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