India knows that it cannot expect help from external powers in managing its neighbourhood. Without improved ties, its strategic threats will only pose greater security risks.
Delivering 19th Nani Palkhivala Memorial Lecture in Mumbai, EAM Jaishankar also says Pakistan remains exception in neighbourhood in view of its support for cross-border terrorism.
It's hardly surprising that Maldives has played the China card. This is the kind of self-interested behaviour that India frequently invokes with Russia or Iran.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
I’d like to know what the Lt General was doing during his time as the National Security Council Secretariat. Most of these issues have cropped up in the last 10 years.
Yes India is in a tough position. But perhaps India also needs to introspect about why all its neighbours have become hostile, yet manage to get along with each other?
High-handedness and a superiority complex aren’t great tools for diplomacy unless one has the economic, military and political clout to back it up.
This is an eye opening article and a reality check of India’s power and influence. Thanks.
My question to Lt. General Prakash Menon is more general aroung our national politics of anit China-ism. I understand 1962 and border disptes. And most of them are created by the line that British drew (mostly unilateraly). An extreme breakdown of these European defined lines on a map is at play in Af-Pak. While we are civilizationally different than the Chinese. I do not see any serious enimity, wars or disdain between our 2 nations in 2,000 years of history barring the last 7 decades.
What is your take on aligning with China for once. What is it that China is anxious about and why is India trying to outsmart China constantly. We are a $3T economy and China is $18T (much much larger) and we can gain a lot by partnering than fighting and chest beating. There is more similarities between our cultures than between India and US (cultural not political). Are we simply playing into the hands of the west. Borders drawn by the British and now Anti-China propaganda from US? The western civilizations are happy to coalesce and show their donmicance and Asian countries just seem to be infighting around ethnic lines to their own cost!
I’d like to know what the Lt General was doing during his time as the National Security Council Secretariat. Most of these issues have cropped up in the last 10 years.
Yes India is in a tough position. But perhaps India also needs to introspect about why all its neighbours have become hostile, yet manage to get along with each other?
High-handedness and a superiority complex aren’t great tools for diplomacy unless one has the economic, military and political clout to back it up.
This is an eye opening article and a reality check of India’s power and influence. Thanks.
My question to Lt. General Prakash Menon is more general aroung our national politics of anit China-ism. I understand 1962 and border disptes. And most of them are created by the line that British drew (mostly unilateraly). An extreme breakdown of these European defined lines on a map is at play in Af-Pak. While we are civilizationally different than the Chinese. I do not see any serious enimity, wars or disdain between our 2 nations in 2,000 years of history barring the last 7 decades.
What is your take on aligning with China for once. What is it that China is anxious about and why is India trying to outsmart China constantly. We are a $3T economy and China is $18T (much much larger) and we can gain a lot by partnering than fighting and chest beating. There is more similarities between our cultures than between India and US (cultural not political). Are we simply playing into the hands of the west. Borders drawn by the British and now Anti-China propaganda from US? The western civilizations are happy to coalesce and show their donmicance and Asian countries just seem to be infighting around ethnic lines to their own cost!
Whether we too can do more to win the trust and confidence of our neighbours.