India s Multi-Alignment Strategy Requires Recalibration and Clarification
This is especially so when one takes into consideration the fast-moving regional developments, specifically India s failure to isolate Pakistan, the Chinese-Iranian Strategic Partnership deal, and the US s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping in Antalya, Turkey, 2015. Credit: South African foreign ministry
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The rapidly evolving regional situation requires India to urgently recalibrate and clarify its multi-alignment strategy. Its policy of isolating Pakistan hasn’t succeeded as planned after ‘great powers’ as diverse as the US, China, the Gulf kingdoms, and even India’s historical ally Russia have increased their engagement with New Delhi’s rival.
From “Indo-Pacific” to “Asia Pacific” India stands too far away from Russia
By Prof Shazia Anwer Cheema
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has gone back to Moscow after concluding his visit to the subcontinent First India and then Pakistan. His next journey will be to Tehran on April 13, 2021.
His visit to India and Pakistan is considered by Russian Think Tanks as a “re-adjustment of Moscow’s orientation in the region”.
It is time to review what strengths and weaknesses Moscow is considering in its relations with India and Pakistan.
Indo-Russian Relations and Indo-US Strategic Partnership
Bilateral relations of India and Russia can be considered historic and friendly but both countries have now contradictory regional perspectives and this factor certainly had an impact on their bilateral relations also.
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Narendra Modi embraces Donald Trump upon his arrival in Ahmedabad on February 24, 2020. PHOTO: AFP
How India’s regional strategy is adapting to the post-Trump reality
In this changing environment, India no longer plays the same role for American strategy as before
India surprised many of its critics by successfully carrying out the synchronised disengagement of its forces along the northern Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China as well as agreeing to a de facto ceasefire along its western LAC with Pakistan. These developments prove that India’s regional strategy is adapting to the post-Trump reality. The South Asian state will still remain among America’s top strategic partners anywhere in the world, but the Biden Administration doesn’t seem as interested in instrumentalising this relationship as part of its declared “Great Power competition” as the previous one was. After all, President Biden’s team is currently reviewing every aspect of their country’s approac