This is a deeply pessimistic piece that is inaccurate at best and retrospective at worst. India was not a middling power in 2012. Its rise has been noticed by the so called great powers over the last 4 years. This explains why India is actually part of great power jostling and not in the so called sweet spot. It’s only when a country represents a challenge that it is targeted. And when it’s even more formidable it is co-opted like the US seeks to coopt China. In 2012 India’s economy was in a rot with corruption and bureaucratic red tape eating away at economic dynamism on every level — from start ups to large industrial groups. That this analysis seeks to divorce Indias growth trajectory from its politics is a dishonest approach that is also economically distorting. 2014-2025 has seen India establishing manufacturing ecosystems unlike anytime in its history. Bureaucracy and corruption were at the heart of the system prior to 2014. This was tamed and the system was streamlined. So today we have so many new areas of public private partnership like the space industry among others. Unicorns and start ups are powering this new economy. China is contending for super power status but its domestic consumption slump is a challenge that the Chinese haven’t been able to address. The US on the other hand over consumed and is in debt. China and the US are two extremes of the power spectrum with their own critical issues. Here India has better balanced its consumption and its output. If that balance is maintained, we will be the worlds third largest economy in the next two years without falling into Chinese or US consumption patterns. Indias rise to the third largest economy while giving its people basic amenities like food rations, health coverage and keeping inflation low is an economic balancing act that is salutary. India might not be a great power in terms of external power projection but we have managed to keep a vast population better off than most industrialized nations have. And the future doesn’t looks so promising for these older powers. Hence the tariff barrage on India and other lashing out actions by the US. To say Turkey is rising was funny to read. Just because NATO possibly deputed it to help Pakistan during op sindoor and they did with drone supplies, doesn’t make them a defense powerhouse. In that sense Ukraine is a great defense power house too.
This is a deeply pessimistic piece that is inaccurate at best and retrospective at worst. India was not a middling power in 2012. Its rise has been noticed by the so called great powers over the last 4 years. This explains why India is actually part of great power jostling and not in the so called sweet spot. It’s only when a country represents a challenge that it is targeted. And when it’s even more formidable it is co-opted like the US seeks to coopt China. In 2012 India’s economy was in a rot with corruption and bureaucratic red tape eating away at economic dynamism on every level — from start ups to large industrial groups. That this analysis seeks to divorce Indias growth trajectory from its politics is a dishonest approach that is also economically distorting. 2014-2025 has seen India establishing manufacturing ecosystems unlike anytime in its history. Bureaucracy and corruption were at the heart of the system prior to 2014. This was tamed and the system was streamlined. So today we have so many new areas of public private partnership like the space industry among others. Unicorns and start ups are powering this new economy. China is contending for super power status but its domestic consumption slump is a challenge that the Chinese haven’t been able to address. The US on the other hand over consumed and is in debt. China and the US are two extremes of the power spectrum with their own critical issues. Here India has better balanced its consumption and its output. If that balance is maintained, we will be the worlds third largest economy in the next two years without falling into Chinese or US consumption patterns. Indias rise to the third largest economy while giving its people basic amenities like food rations, health coverage and keeping inflation low is an economic balancing act that is salutary. India might not be a great power in terms of external power projection but we have managed to keep a vast population better off than most industrialized nations have. And the future doesn’t looks so promising for these older powers. Hence the tariff barrage on India and other lashing out actions by the US. To say Turkey is rising was funny to read. Just because NATO possibly deputed it to help Pakistan during op sindoor and they did with drone supplies, doesn’t make them a defense powerhouse. In that sense Ukraine is a great defense power house too.
So who is real power..pakistan
Mistaking G 20 and Raisina Dialogue for the real thing.
If true, it’s Good to know wisdom has prevailed over irrational jingoism.