Dhruva Jaishankar

YouTube video by ORF America Around the World #1: Gaza Hostage Deal, U.S.-China Trade War, French PM

Around the World #1: Where Rachel Rizzo and I talk Gaza hostage deal, US-China trade war, and French politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_N...

India and South Korea: Opportunities for Industrial and Strategic Cooperation — ORF America By Dhruva Jaishankar The newly-elected presidency of Lee Jae Myung in South Korea has created an opportunity to advance India-South Korea relations. The greatest potential for cooperation between the...

ARTICLE: 5 areas of industrial policy where India and South Korea are looking to collaborate. orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

India’s Contributions to Security in the Western Pacific — ORF America By Dhruva Jaishankar and Ammar Nainar As China and the United States jostle for position, India has a modest but meaningful role to play as a security provider in the Western Pacific. Beyond the Indi...

NEW ARTICLE: Notwithstanding differences with the United States, India has been a more active security actor in the Western Pacific in 2025. orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

This week: ORF and ORF America contributed to India Day at the UN (with a focus on SDGs), previewed next year's AI Action Summit in New York, hosted U.S.-India AI Policy Fellows in Washington DC, and released a new report of a U.S.-India AI Task Force.

U.S. Tariff Windfall Cannot Compensate for Jobs, Costs, Debt, and Inefficiencies — ORF America By Marta Bengoa The current situation demands acknowledgment that trade and monetary policy operate as interconnected systems, not isolated levers that can be pulled independently. A coherent approac...

Three new articles from ORF America on:

1. U.S. tariffs affecting Fed interest rate cuts: orfamerica.org/orf-america-...
2, India-South Korea industrial cooperation: orfamerica.org/orf-america-...
3. Environmental risks harming critical mineral extraction: orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

HIRING: Are you a Spanish-speaking policy professional in the United States? We're hiring a Program Coordinator for Latin America at ORF America!

Details: orfamerica.org/program-coor...

Latest on tariffs, China, social media regulation, and energy security from ORF America experts: orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

India Responds to Beijing’s Pressure on Taiwan — ORF America By Hsiao-Chen Lin With its semiconductor leadership, an open economy, and pluralistic partnerships, Taiwan shows that the international community can uphold their One China policies while refusing to...

3. Why did India and China have an unusually public disagreement about Taiwan? orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

Middleware Solutions: Making Social Media More Transparent — ORF America By Katherine Salinas The middleware approach presents the fewest First Amendment complications of any regulatory option. Rather than restricting speech or compelling specific viewpoints, it simply re...

2. How can social media become more transparent for consumers? orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

India’s Energy Independence Agenda: Weaving Economic, Environmental, and Geopolitical Priorities — ORF America By Piyush Verma By meeting clean energy targets ahead of schedule, expanding nuclear and hydrogen capacity, and securing critical mineral supply chains, India is positioning itself as a model for cli...

A few recent updates from ORF America:

1. How does India plan to square energy security with economics, sustainability, and geopolitics?

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Strengthening India’s Cyber Incident Reporting Framework — ORF America By Jiwon Lim Despite a rapidly evolving cyber landscape, India’s cyber security focus marginalizes the trust building and assessment abilities that make up a reporting framework.

6. India's cyber incident reporting framework was last advanced 3 years ago. What are best practices that can be learned from the experiences of others, such as the EU and Australia? orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

An EU-India FTA is Vital for their Clean Energy Industries — ORF America By Hansika Nath Clean technology has emerged as a key area of convergence in trade talks between India and the EU.

5. Sustainable energy cooperation between the European Union and India could receive a boost should a trade agreement be finalized. What are the opportunities and challenges there? orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

A Deeper Dive: Trump Pursues American Dominance in AI — ORF America By Sarah Box The AI Action Plan is a clear signpost towards American dominance in AI and its impact will be felt globally. The hope is that it will indeed lead to the industrial and information revol...

4. What's Trump's AI Action Plan all about? orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

Three Global Lessons from India’s Clean Energy Surge — ORF America By Piyush Verma While challenges remain in terms of generation mix, grid integration, infrastructure resilience and storage capacity, India’s clean energy milestone sends a clear message: ambitious g...

3. To little fanfare, non-fossil fuel energy accounts for over 50% of India's electricity generation, 5 years ahead of schedule. What enabled this? orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

Trump’s Complex Tariff Deals Will Tax American Consumers — ORF America By Marta Bengoa What began as April's "Liberation Day" announcement has evolved into a complex framework of negotiated settlements that, while avoiding the most severe outcomes initially threatened, ...

2. Why tariffs after August 1 will ultimately hurt U.S. consumers. orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

A Sudden Slide in U.S.-India Relations — ORF America By Dhruva Jaishankar Over the past few months, relations between the United States and India have gone from stable and promising to tense and turbulent..

A few recent analytical pieces from ORF America on India-U.S. relations, trade and tariffs, cyber security, energy transitions, EU-India climate cooperation, and U.S. AI policy.

1. What explains the sudden deterioration in India-U.S. relations? orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

A Sudden Slide in U.S.-India Relations — ORF America By Dhruva Jaishankar Over the past few months, relations between the United States and India have gone from stable and promising to tense and turbulent..

What's going on between India and the United States?
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What Kind of Great Power Will India Be? Debating New Delhi’s grand strategy.

I write in Foreign Affairs: www.foreignaffairs.com/responses/wh...

Getting Biofuels Right — ORF America By Anit Mukherjee and Caroline Arkalji In the run up to the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, countries are reevaluating the role of biofuels in supporting efforts to accelerate the clean energy transi...

3. Biofuels are becoming more important for low carbon transportation, but Brazil, India, South Africa, the EU, and U.S. have adopted different policy approaches. orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

A Streamlined Agenda as Quad Cooperation Continues — ORF America By Ammar Nainar Despite trade and tariff wars and continuing security tensions in Europe, the Middle East, and Indian subcontinent, Quad cooperation continues. But the trends this year also reflect a...

2. The Quad's activities have been continuing under Trump (coast guards, sensors, humanitarian assistance), to little fanfare, although the agenda has become more streamlined. orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

India-UK Trade Deal Sets a New Benchmark for India’s Digital Trade — ORF America 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 s...

Three really interesting reads from my ORF America colleagues:

1. The digital provisions in the India-UK free trade agreement reflect a major change in India's approach to digital trade. orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

New from ORF America: on the Quad, cyber intrusion, Middle East crisis, and biofuels. orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

Five Lessons for South Asia from the Middle East Crisis — ORF America By Lindsey Ford The ongoing crisis in the Middle East — which involved Israeli and then U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, including nuclear facilities, as well as Iranian retaliation against Israel an...

My ORF America colleague Lindsey Ford on 5 lessons from the recent conflagration between Israel and Iran for hypothetical future scenarios involving India and Pakistan: orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

Explaining the Vibe Shift in India-U.S. Relations — ORF America By Dhruva Jaishankar The sudden whiplash in public sentiment in some quarters in India is notable and will moderate the appetite in New Delhi for cooperation with Washington.

Neglected to post this piece from 10 days ago, but it's still probably relevant. orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

Trump’s Reversal on AI Diffusion Controls Raises New Questions — ORF America By Jeffrey D. Bean All in all, the United States’ oscillating policy on AI diffusion reflects an ongoing struggle in how best to simultaneously retain U.S. leadership in semiconductors and advance c...

New from ORF America: why Trump's reversal on AI diffusion raises more questions than answers. orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

Three Ways in Which the 2025 India-Pakistan Crisis Was Different — ORF America By Dhruva Jaishankar Relations between India and Pakistan had been in deep freeze since 2019: there will now be fewer constituencies than ever in India in favor of normalization. 

New Comment: 3 ways in which this India-Pakistan crisis was different from 1999, 2001-02, 2008, 2016, and 2019 (tl;dr operational differences; the role of the U.S.; India's Pakistan policy) orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

That and the whole Johnny Fontane story where he resurrects his career by winning an Oscar -- just like Sinatra.

Webinar: India-Pakistan Tensions — ORF America On May 12, ORF America hosted a webinar about India's response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack, and ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan. Speakers: Lt. Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.) , ...

Some context on recent India-Pakistan tensions in this 50 minute long conversation we hosted at ORF America: orfamerica.org/recent-event...

Three Debates Shaping the Trump Administration’s Foreign Policies — ORF America By Dhruva Jaishankar and Ammar Nainar As observers struggle to make sense of Trump’s second presidential term, it is worth considering three parallel debates that are shaping these outcomes.

My colleague Ammar Nainar and I write on how to make sense of the first 100 days of a Trump 2.0 foreign policy (tl;dr Through 3 separate debates): orfamerica.org/orf-america-...

Recent commentary: orfamerica.org/orf-america-...