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.
Manish Tewari | The long view from New Delhi
Published : Apr 11, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Updated : Apr 11, 2021, 12:00 am IST
The persisting stand-off with China must make India rethink its relationship structures both in the Asian and global context
What then are India’s options to protect its broader strategic interests, namely, keep the Chinese at bay. (Photo: AP)
The persisting stand-off with China must make India rethink its relationship structures both in the Asian and global context. How is India geo-strategically placed currently? On its northern borders it confronts an aggressive China. On its western borders it is currently in a state of a partial thaw qua Pakistan. A melt that can again go back to a state of deep freeze at any point of time. On the east the strains with regard to the economic blockade of Nepal in 2015 still continue to linger. Bhutan is caught in the Sino-Indian cleft stick. Bangladesh, though reaffirming the centrality of India to its external
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Why the China-Iran Strategic Partnership Deal benefits Pakistan
Sun Online Desk
1st April, 2021 09:11:55
Pakistan is the third party that stands to gain the most from the Chinese-Iranian Strategic Partnership deal that was just clinched this weekend. According to reports, Beijing plans to invest upwards of $400 billion into the Islamic Republic’s economy over a 25-year period, with a specific emphasis on energy and infrastructure. Without any exaggeration, one can rightly describe this as a much-needed lifeline that will likely ensure the West Asian country’s long-term stability in the face of crushing American sanctions and increased US-led regional military pressure from its GCC and “Israeli” rivals.