Energy & Climate
ORF America
Can Italy Become India’s Gateway to Europe?

By Pietro Zecca

As countries work to reduce their exposure to China-centered supply chains, India is building strategically motivated partnerships across Europe, notably with Italy. It may arguably become India's most interesting clean energy partner in the region.

Can Italy Become India’s Gateway to Europe?
Economic Development
ORF America
The U.S.-Canada Tariff War: How a 1930 Statute ...

By Marta Bengoa

Tariffs can be withdrawn by proclamation as quickly as they were imposed, and the September 8 measures may well be traded away in the review that begins next summer. The conclusion Canada has reached about the reliability of its largest customer will take considerably longer to reverse.

The U.S.-Canada Tariff War: How a 1930 Statute Bypasses a Free Trade Agreement
Energy & Climate, Technology Policy
ORF America
How Quantum Computing Could Reshape the Energy ...

By Shailesh Mishra and Uma Vatsa

What quantum computing could change, if it works, is the ceiling on what the decades after that can build, because the limits on ammonia, energy storage, and electricity transmission are set by chemistry we cannot currently calculate. Those limits are already known. Describing them precisely enough to hand to a machine is work that can start now.

How Quantum Computing Could Reshape the Energy Industry
Technology Policy
ORF America
The Purpose and Promise of Pax Silica

By Jeffrey D. Bean

While the Pax Silica initiative has been criticized for being non-binding, unfocused, U.S.-centric, and inconsistent in its membership, it is nonetheless the best-placed plurilateral initiative to advance what has been a bipartisan consensus in the United States on U.S. technological leadership.

The Purpose and Promise of Pax Silica
Energy & Climate
ORF America
How the African Union is Navigating the United ...

By Raul Alfaro-Pelico

When the African Union took its permanent member seat at the G20 in 2023, it was read across the continent as a long-overdue correction. Three years on, the question is narrower and harder. What does the seat actually buy?

How the African Union is Navigating the United States’ G20 Presidency

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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