Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
The Mecca Agreement Builds upon a Legacy of ...

By Ammar Nainar

In the long run, India will continue to deepen defense cooperation with a select group of West Asian and Mediterranean countries in partial response to developments such as the Mecca Agreement.

The Mecca Agreement Builds upon a Legacy of Middle East Security Arrangements
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
Taiwan’s Opposition KMT Faces a Difficult ...

By Dylan Morgan

While the CCP may view Cheng as an opportunity to revive engagement, Taiwan’s political realities continue to place limits on how far she can move towards accommodating Beijing. Her current efforts to moderate her platform and temper pushback may be able to help her make inroads with a broader audience.

Taiwan’s Opposition KMT Faces a Difficult Dilemma
Technology Policy
ORF America
Behind the Billions: Understanding the AI ...

By Andreas Kuehn and Tara Chawla

The AI buildout is not simply a race for more advanced accelerators, but an infrastructure-centered contest to turn technology, energy, and capital into usable computing capacity. The decisive measure will not be announced spending or planned capacity, but how quickly those commitments become reliable, operational computing capacity.

Behind the Billions: Understanding the AI Infrastructure Buildout
ORF Global Quarterly V1, Technology Policy, Energy & Climate
ORF America
Digital Currencies: From Idea to Implementation

By Sauradeep Bag

The central question is no longer whether sovereign digital money will emerge but what institutional form it will take, who will govern it, and whose economic interests it will serve.

Digital Currencies: From Idea to Implementation
ORF Global Quarterly V1, Technology Policy, Energy & Climate
ORF America
Quantum Codebreaking Moves One Step Forward

By Prateek Tripathi

Though the field of quantum computing is not mature enough to provide remarkable practical applications at the moment, recent developments serve to exemplify the asymmetric nature of quantum technology development and how multiple incremental advancements can potentially lead to overall progress.

Quantum Codebreaking Moves One Step Forward

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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