C. Raja Mohan is Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and the consulting editor on foreign affairs for 'The Indian Express'. Before his association with The Indian Express began in 2004, Raja Mohan worked for The Hindu as its Washington correspondent and Strategic Affairs Editor. He was a distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. In his academic avatar, Raja Mohan has been professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. As a think tanker, he worked at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses and Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He is on the editorial board of various international affairs journals and is affiliated with the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore; the Lowy Institute, Sydney; and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. He is the author, most recently, of Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific.
India will need pragmatism, diplomatic skill in shaping new rules for regulation of outer space
India now needs to prepare for an outer space that might become an active military theatre. Above all it needs collaboration with allies and partners in outer space.
As it looks beyond its first anti-satellite weapon test last month, India needs to come to terms with a number of factors that are transforming the political and economic nature of outer space. Four issues demand India’s attention. And all of them call for a reorientation of India’s national strategy towards outer space. First is the unfolding drift towards the weaponisation of outer space. Over the last two decades, India has joined other powers in developing space assets for passive military uses of outer space — such as surveillance, targeting and military communication. It now needs to prepare for an outer space that might become an active military theatre.
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