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C. Raja Mohan
C. Raja Mohan holds the Korea Chair at the Council for Strategic and Defence Research, Delhi and is a contributing editor on international affairs for The Indian Express.
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The other G2 and three lessons that follow for IndiaSubscriber Only
October 13,2026 18:03:14 PM
Just weeks ago, Trump signed legislation giving him sweeping powers to impose tariffs of up to 100 per cent on countries like India buying Russian oil. Hypocritical? Of course. But hypocrisy is part of international life
Wed, Oct 14, 2026
C Raja Mohan: In Iran war, US midterm elections are the new frontSubscriber Only
October 06,2026 13:40:24 PM
For both Tehran and the White House, managing the home front can matter as much as gaining on the battlefield
Wed, Oct 07, 2026
C Raja Mohan writes: The ghosts of 1945 are being recruited for today’s contest over AsiaSubscriber Only
September 29,2026 15:01:24 PM
References to history are rarely innocent. The past is interpreted and reinterpreted to serve the politics of the present. Since returning to power, Trump has invoked US wartime cooperation with both Russia and China
Wed, Sep 30, 2026
C Raja Mohan: AI is now a great-power game. That poses a test for IndiaSubscriber Only
September 22,2026 14:31:32 PM
Delhi should welcome any US-China agreement that reduces the dangers of AI. But it also faces three difficult questions
Wed, Sep 23, 2026
C Raja Mohan: The multipolar world India wants may be a distant realitySubscriber Only
September 15,2026 14:42:41 PM
Organisations like the APEC, BRICS, EU, G7 and NATO don’t shape the world order. They operate within the parameters set by great-power politics
Wed, Sep 16, 2026
No fire & brimstone: Delhi pushes back against making BRICS a geopolitical blocSubscriber Only
September 12,2026 21:42:54 PM
BRICS has not resolved the conflicts among its members or ended their competition for influence. It has simply avoided imposing an ideological straitjacket on them and making the world worse off
Sun, Sep 13, 2026
Explained: Why you can’t put all of BRICS in the anti-West boxSubscriber Only
September 12,2026 04:29:11 AM
There are a range of national aims within the grouping: Accommodation with the West, autonomy from it, parity within it or direct confrontation.
Sat, Sep 12, 2026
Elephant in the room in meetings with Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin: India’s manufacturing challengesSubscriber Only
September 11,2026 08:00:26 AM
That frames the key issue: Gap between India’s international economic rhetoric and its national industrial capabilities
Sat, Sep 12, 2026
A potential Trump-Xi-Putin summit is casting a shadow over BRICSSubscriber Only
September 08,2026 14:45:10 PM
The Europeans worry that an accommodation with Moscow could be made at their expense. Asian allies fear that a bargain with Beijing could weaken American commitments to regional security
Wed, Sep 09, 2026
C Raja Mohan: India must catch up in this China-US tech raceSubscriber Only
September 02,2026 06:20:39 AM
This contest is not about who unveils the cleverest AI model. It is about building the most effective ecosystem connecting universities, laboratories, entrepreneurs, finance, energy, factories, supply chains and markets
Wed, Sep 02, 2026
C Raja Mohan writes: India’s Central Asia strategy needs less romance, more realismSubscriber Only
August 25,2026 17:41:52 PM
India cannot match China’s infrastructure spending, Russia’s geographic advantages, Europe’s financial resources or Türkiye’s direct access across the Caspian. Nor does it need to. Sustained political attention should be matched by a practical economic agenda focused on areas where India can contribute
Wed, Aug 26, 2026
C Raja Mohan writes: A changing Asia demands more from Delhi and Tokyo, togetherSubscriber Only
August 18,2026 13:34:40 PM
The Japanese Defence Minister's Delhi visit should be an occasion to ask how both countries can give their defence partnership much greater operational and technological weight
Tue, Aug 18, 2026
C Raja Mohan writes: The Mecca Accord exposes Arab weaknessSubscriber Only
August 11,2026 12:58:43 PM
There is no escaping the essence of Suhrawardy's arithmetic, that has outlived him, about Arab and Muslim solidarity: 'Zero plus zero plus zero still amounts to zero'
Wed, Aug 12, 2026
As Gen Z leads political change in the Subcontinent, is Pakistan doomed to be the exception?Subscriber Only
August 04,2026 15:13:57 PM
Unlike its neighbours, Pakistan’s youthful demographic has been unable to challenge entrenched military dominance
Wed, Aug 05, 2026
Forever rising, never arriving? India’s great-power questSubscriber Only
July 28,2026 15:32:37 PM
Deepening political polarisation, the resurgence of feudal and pre-modern forces, and growing strains on democratic institutions at home will weaken India’s ability to deal with a rapidly changing world marked by sharpening geopolitical rivalry, less open markets, and the rise of disruptive technologies
Wed, Jul 29, 2026
C Raja Mohan writes: 1991’s biggest lesson for India is not about diplomacySubscriber Only
July 21,2026 13:03:23 PM
The collapse of old certainties transformed India’s strategy once before. Iran and Ukraine should force Delhi to rethink it again
Wed, Jul 22, 2026
C Raja Mohan writes | Iran after Khamenei will be shaped by the America questionSubscriber Only
July 14,2026 15:45:00 PM
For realists, the question is about the nature and degree of change in Iran, not the inevitability of it. Iran’s relationship with America sits at the heart of the unfinished Iranian debate on the organising principles of the third republic
Wed, Jul 15, 2026
Beyond US and China, India and others are building a ‘G Minus Two’ for Indo-PacificSubscriber Only
July 07,2026 16:40:13 PM
Every major Asian nation, including India and the three countries Modi is visiting this week, knows that Chinese power in Asia and the Indo-Pacific is a reality that must be managed
Wed, Jul 08, 2026
At 250, the US can still reinvent itself — and the worldSubscriber Only
July 04,2026 06:38:09 AM
American history cautions us against writing off a republic that has repeatedly reinvented both its capitalism and the politics needed to govern it at home and lead it abroad
Sat, Jul 04, 2026
C Raja Mohan writes: The Indo-Pacific is here to stay — with or without WashingtonSubscriber Only
June 30,2026 12:24:18 PM
Delhi need not become captive to American enthusiasm or indifference. The Indo-Pacific ultimately rests not on terminology but on Asian geography and Asian power politics
Wed, Jul 01, 2026
C Raja Mohan writes | Elon Musk, the robot revolution and a dominant China: Will India be left behind in the embodied AI race?Subscriber Only
June 23,2026 16:10:45 PM
Self-reliance rhetoric is no substitute for strategy here. Unlike China, India cannot isolate its robotics ambitions from the world; its near-term task is to combine international collaboration with the patient building of domestic research, design and manufacturing capability
Wed, Jun 24, 2026
Not West vs rest, India’s challenge is how to navigate within West itselfSubscriber Only
June 16,2026 17:57:15 PM
Where many in Delhi’s foreign policy community see an irreconcilable contradiction between the pursuit of strategic autonomy and partnership with the West, China demonstrated the art of transcending it — and against far steeper odds
Sun, Jun 21, 2026
Could US-Iran deal end the elusive quest for ‘New Middle East’?Subscriber Only
June 16,2026 06:00:49 AM
Disputes over interpretation will begin as soon as the text is released. Implementation will be harder, the possibility of breakdown is real. Whatever emerges, the region is in the midst of a profound transition.
Tue, Jun 16, 2026
A tale of two Popes, an age-old question: Who benefits from technological change?Subscriber Only
June 09,2026 13:32:20 PM
Leo XIV returns to the concerns of Leo XIII. Technology creates wealth, but it also creates inequality. Politics has always been about managing the tension between the two
Wed, Jun 10, 2026
C Raja Mohan writes: In navigating US and China, Japan is imagining a new Asia storySubscriber Only
June 02,2026 11:16:39 AM
Tokyo is not breaking from its One China policy. But it has increasingly signalled that a military conflict over Taiwan would have direct consequences for Japan
Thu, Jun 04, 2026
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