NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday said that India can “de-risk the global economy through more effective partnerships” calling for multiple engines of growth, in a multipolar and “rebalanced” world.
Addressing the Nikkei “Future of Asia” conference, Jaishankar called for diversification of supply chains from the current over-dependence on China.
“It is only with such redundancy that the world can face the next pandemic better than we are doing the current one,” Jaishankar said.
The pandemic, he said, had upended the global conversation on globalisation countries focusing more on strategic autonomy at least in critical areas of the economy and supply chains.