In response to question in Parliament, MoS (External Affairs) gave details of Jaishankar’s travels between November 2022 & December 2023. PM Modi travelled to 12 countries during this period.
In 24th report on ‘India’s policy planning and role of think-tanks’, the committee on external affairs has also recommended strengthening ministry's policy, planning & research division.
Academics have warned that India, by following its position, risks China doing invasions along the lines of Ukraine. So, India must outline the ‘red lines’.
It's hard to assess the impact on India if the West introduces secondary sanctions on banks and corporations in China that continue to trade with Russia.
The social safety net for the Indian population is adequate, though improvements in health and education infrastructure are necessary and can be achieved through reallocating capital expenditure.
The Asian Development Outlook 2024 report suggests that policymakers in the region should monitor a number of risks. These include escalating conflicts and geopolitical tensions.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Sirji
These overseas visits can be called successful if those serve national interests ,otherwise those are just aimless private jaunts at taxpayers expense.
Voice of global south requires India to take principled stand. Ukraine and Israel showed that India failed to ‘lead’. Excepting off course for the take of the ‘godi’ media and few of the retired foreign secretaries their progenies and the so called experts placated in the govt. sponsored ‘think tanks’!
Gaza showed to the world that India has no followers in the Global South . The Change in India’s stand at UNO on Gaza showed that instead of the Global South following India it is actually the reverse case .
Our relations with neighbouring countries have reached to its lowest point. A sycophantic bureaucracy and the godi media which is engrossed in bashing less powerful countries like Pakistan and to an extent Canada (unlike to the USA) is not expected to get the Chinese aggressors to back out.
The improvement in relations with the US bloc does not reflect on the success of our diplomacy rather a success of the US diplomacy in getting India to be a pawn in the US – China geopolitics.
There are many instances which will substantiate the failures of Indian diplomacy in the last decade.
The causes for such failures may be many but the main one seems to be that international diplomacy and our foreign policy seems to be driven, unfortunately, by the whims and fancies of a few rather than by a well thought out institutionalised policy .
In the sycophantic world of today, India awaits that little kid who called the Emperor naked.
Amen.
Sirji
These overseas visits can be called successful if those serve national interests ,otherwise those are just aimless private jaunts at taxpayers expense.
Voice of global south requires India to take principled stand. Ukraine and Israel showed that India failed to ‘lead’. Excepting off course for the take of the ‘godi’ media and few of the retired foreign secretaries their progenies and the so called experts placated in the govt. sponsored ‘think tanks’!
Gaza showed to the world that India has no followers in the Global South . The Change in India’s stand at UNO on Gaza showed that instead of the Global South following India it is actually the reverse case .
Our relations with neighbouring countries have reached to its lowest point. A sycophantic bureaucracy and the godi media which is engrossed in bashing less powerful countries like Pakistan and to an extent Canada (unlike to the USA) is not expected to get the Chinese aggressors to back out.
The improvement in relations with the US bloc does not reflect on the success of our diplomacy rather a success of the US diplomacy in getting India to be a pawn in the US – China geopolitics.
There are many instances which will substantiate the failures of Indian diplomacy in the last decade.
The causes for such failures may be many but the main one seems to be that international diplomacy and our foreign policy seems to be driven, unfortunately, by the whims and fancies of a few rather than by a well thought out institutionalised policy .
In the sycophantic world of today, India awaits that little kid who called the Emperor naked.
Amen.