Modi govt needs to focus on building domestic capabilities and reducing internal polarisation. India’s foreign policy should not be shaped by delusion and narcissism.
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London's SOAS once had room for students protesting Margaret Thatcher hosting Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir. Now it suspends them for demonstrating in support of Palestinians.
Western reactions suggest that achieving some kumbaya moment of synchronized purpose and identity has become more vital to the West than averting a global humanitarian catastrophe.
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In a column in The Hindu, ex-PM weighs in on Russia-Ukraine conflict, what it means for world order, and India’s trade opportunities as West reduces dependence on Russia & China.
Is Modi govt's refusal to take sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict any different from the Nehru-Gandhi govts' actions during the Cold War years? Critics must ask.
Turkey's ties with Russia, which President Erdogan favoured over Western allies in the last two years, are now rocky after the two nations took opposing sides on the conflicts in Libya and Syria.
While the Narendra Modi government has attracted criticism for the way it is handling India-US relationship, it is now possible to discern the faint outlines of a new template for foreign and trade policy.
India’s merchandise exports to US remain positive, despite 50% tariffs, while imports from US grew by 12.85% in the first three quarters of the financial year.
Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
The author got it completely wrong, The Govt of india is not seeking approvals, its building consensus and the PM is spearheading that effort and rightly so
Let’s not forget that since British colonization and later economic liberalization, India’s economy, polity and culture have become deeply intertwined with the West. With the migration of Indians to every part of the western world it’s become a matter of extended families as far as India West relations go. For PM Modi steeped in a culture of worshipping the motherland, no difference with the West can possibly stand in the way of the long term goal of national strength. The goal is a world where the US and west in general learns to allow countries like India to operate in the best interest of its people and doesn’t move to contain and control countries that don’t seem to fit their desire for continued hegemony. That the US is using Israel and Pakistan to undermine the sovereignty of civilizational nations like Iran is ultimately a threat to India. Let’s be clear Israel and to a different degree Pakistan have become the ultimate client states of US. No non-white ally of the US, arguably with the exception of Japan, has ever had a good national outcome as a result of its alliance with the US. Ukraine is the most horrifying example. A country and a people
Sacrificed entirely at the altar of US hegemony while being called an ally.
The author got it completely wrong, The Govt of india is not seeking approvals, its building consensus and the PM is spearheading that effort and rightly so
Let’s not forget that since British colonization and later economic liberalization, India’s economy, polity and culture have become deeply intertwined with the West. With the migration of Indians to every part of the western world it’s become a matter of extended families as far as India West relations go. For PM Modi steeped in a culture of worshipping the motherland, no difference with the West can possibly stand in the way of the long term goal of national strength. The goal is a world where the US and west in general learns to allow countries like India to operate in the best interest of its people and doesn’t move to contain and control countries that don’t seem to fit their desire for continued hegemony. That the US is using Israel and Pakistan to undermine the sovereignty of civilizational nations like Iran is ultimately a threat to India. Let’s be clear Israel and to a different degree Pakistan have become the ultimate client states of US. No non-white ally of the US, arguably with the exception of Japan, has ever had a good national outcome as a result of its alliance with the US. Ukraine is the most horrifying example. A country and a people
Sacrificed entirely at the altar of US hegemony while being called an ally.