inclined countries, but you also have a role not just in the brics, but also we are current chairman of the shanghai cooperation 0rganisation, which is indeed an organisation set up by russia and china, so we ve had it both ways. it sounds to me like your foreign policy differs very little indeed from mr modi s. well, i mean, on this, he s following a path that our party laid down all these years ago. so, yes, we re not going to dissent from a rule that we created. but i think you were hinting that the time may come when we ll have to make a choice that we haven t needed to make so far. and we have to be prepared and understand and weigh the consequences of the choices we ll make. right now, we don t need to make that choice because we are able to work within both sets of entities. that s the way the world is today. sadly, we re out of time. shashi tharoor, i thank you very much forjoining me on hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen.
with the us, for example, in what s called the i2u2, which is the us, uae, india and israel, in west asia. so you ve got relationships in both west asia and east asia with what you would consider western countries, western inclined countries, but you also have a role not just in the brics, but also we are current chairman of the shanghai cooperation, organisation, which is indeed an organisation set up by russia and china, so we ve had it both ways. it sounds to me like your foreign policy differs very little indeed from mr modi s. well, i mean, on this, he s following a path that our party laid down all these years ago. so, yes, we re not going to dissent from a rule that we created. but i think you were hinting that the time may come when we ll have to make a choice that we haven t needed to make so far. and we have to be prepared and understand and weigh the consequences of the choices we ll make. right now, we don t need to make that choice because we are able to work within both s
ways so far. it sounds to me like your foreign policy differs very little indeed from mr modi s. well, i mean, on this, he s following a path that our party laid down all these years ago. so, yes, we re not going to dissent from a rule that we created. but i think you were hinting that the time may come when we ll have to make a choice that we haven t needed to make so far. and we have to be prepared and understand and weigh the consequences of the choices we ll make.
australia, japan and the us. we also have partnerships with the us, for example, in what s called the i2u2, which is the us, uae, india and israel, in west asia. so you ve got relationships in both west asia and east asia with what you would consider western countries, western inclined countries, but you also have a role notjust in the brics, but also we are current chairman of the shanghai cooperation, organisation, which is indeed an organisation set up by russia and china, so we ve had it both ways. it sounds to me like your foreign policy differs very little indeed from mr modi s. well, i mean, on this, he s following a path that our party laid down all these years ago. so, yes, we re not going to dissent from a rule that we created. but i think you were hinting that the time may come when we ll have to make a choice that we haven t needed to make so far. and we have to be prepared and understand and weigh the consequences of the choices we ll make. right now, we don t need to make