Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
All one can say is, We should be realistic, pragmatic. The 4 : 1 asymmetry in the size of the economies is a fact of life. It has developed over a forty year period, when the two countries adopted different economic orthodoxies. China’s trek to greatness started with exports of garments, shoes, toys, which we reserved for the small scale sector. Unsurprising that China now spends four times as much on defence as well, although its rivalry is really with the US. It has apparently only two brigades based in Tibet. 2. Ms Jyoti Malhotra carried a sobering column recently. A senior diplomat told her, India’s sphere of influence in South Asia is now history. SAARC is lying comatose, due to India – Pakistan hostility. It may not be a bad idea to invite China to join it and to attempt a more harmonious reset, what some have called the forging of a new new modus vivendi. 3. One lacks the distinguished columnist’s expertise in strategic matters. Difficult to judge if China wants to conquer the world. India has both nuclear and conventional deterrence in place, so it is not that we would place our vital interests at risk by engaging more constructively with China. Whether it was the tense standoff at Dokalam or talk of fighting – and winning – a two and a half front war, that is not the way forward.
All one can say is, We should be realistic, pragmatic. The 4 : 1 asymmetry in the size of the economies is a fact of life. It has developed over a forty year period, when the two countries adopted different economic orthodoxies. China’s trek to greatness started with exports of garments, shoes, toys, which we reserved for the small scale sector. Unsurprising that China now spends four times as much on defence as well, although its rivalry is really with the US. It has apparently only two brigades based in Tibet. 2. Ms Jyoti Malhotra carried a sobering column recently. A senior diplomat told her, India’s sphere of influence in South Asia is now history. SAARC is lying comatose, due to India – Pakistan hostility. It may not be a bad idea to invite China to join it and to attempt a more harmonious reset, what some have called the forging of a new new modus vivendi. 3. One lacks the distinguished columnist’s expertise in strategic matters. Difficult to judge if China wants to conquer the world. India has both nuclear and conventional deterrence in place, so it is not that we would place our vital interests at risk by engaging more constructively with China. Whether it was the tense standoff at Dokalam or talk of fighting – and winning – a two and a half front war, that is not the way forward.