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’s Private-Public Space Industry Takes Off
How Quantum Computing Could Reshape the Energy Industry
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.
Brains Over Brawn: A Smarter Approach to the AI Buildout
By Uma Vatsa and Shailesh Mishra
The AI industry is making large, long-lived bets on future demand, even as the technology itself is becoming more efficient. If AI systems become cheaper to run, more efficient to train, or less dependent on massively centralized compute, some of today’s infrastructure may prove oversized, poorly located, or economically fragile.
Demystifying the India-U.S. Trade Negotiations
How the United States and India Can Overcome the Sovereign Compute Trap in AI
By Rohan Sharma
The United States’ and India’s commitments are clear: pro-innovation regulation, joint next-generation data centers, and cooperation on advanced compute. But agreements do not operationalize themselves. What is needed is not another forum, but an interface. A jointly staffed mechanism, anchored in implementation agencies, becomes the only viable bridge.
U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Advances Along Two Tracks
By Vishal Manve
India’s nuclear future is increasingly unfolding along two parallel tracks, one rooted in indigenous strategic capability and the other in internationally integrated commercial innovation. For Washington, understanding and engaging both will be central to the next phase of U.S.–India civil nuclear cooperation.
The Brewing Transatlantic Rivalry Over India
U.S.-India AI Cooperation Hinges on Standards and Infrastructure
AI Deployment by Cities Carries Benefits, but Needs Safeguards
By Manish Thakre
As local governments increasingly rely on private vendors, building institutional capacity is essential to ensure AI technologies serve the public interest. Decisions about what AI systems to buy, and under what conditions, determine to what extent these systems benefit citizens or produce harmful outcomes.
Workforce — not Policy — is the Biggest Obstacle to India’s Nuclear Energy Ambitions
How Australia, Canada, and India Can Reshape Critical Minerals Supply Chains
By Holly Stevens and Siddharth Sharma
As demand for electric vehicles, battery storage, clean energy systems, and advanced technologies continues to accelerate, Australia’s resource base and mining history, Canada’s resource base as well as its mining and industrial capabilities, and India’s market scale and commitment to value-added manufacturing could support diversification across multiple stages of the value chain.
Cybersecurity as Economic Security: The Case for U.S.-India Coordination
By Krishnaveni Palanivelu
Cybersecurity must be treated as a shared economic security challenge. By aligning standards, strengthening cooperation, and embedding cyber resilience into trade, infrastructure, and foreign policy, democracies like the United States and India can better protect their digital foundations and sustain long-term economic stability.
Can India and Taiwan Cooperate on Submarines?
By Benjamin Tkach and Vasabjit Banerjee
Submarine production difficulties affect the global marketplace and place a premium on domestic production. India’s pursuit of untested technologies elevates its risk, while Taiwan’s domestically produced system relies on foreign components. Both, therefore, have a lot to benefit from engineering and design cooperation in submarine production.
Dharma, Just War Theory, and the U.S.-India Partnership
Towards an India-U.S. Drone Corridor
India-UK Trade Deal Sets a New Benchmark for India’s Digital Trade
By Ashita Jain
The India-UK FTA reflects a significant shift in India’s digital trade approach. The commitments it makes, particularly on customs duties on electronic transmissions, data flows, and source code protection, will serve as benchmarks in India’s ongoing negotiations with the EU and the United States.
