In an interview with The Economist, India’s foreign minister offered his views of India’s relationships with America, China and Russia, and its effort to be a leader of the global South. Read the transcript here
is not in thegame, but we think there are other ways of skinning the cat. So, you have an India which is looking at multiple opportunities across multiple geographies, often polities which have contradictory interests. And it is trying to advance on all fronts. The one front which is a challenge is China, for reasons which we both know.
But the second part of it was also that over a period of time people made this theology out of what they thought Nehru believed. And then that became a kind of a dogma about how to stay out of trouble. You know, why are we getting involved? It’s not my case that we should go and wade into every problem in the world. I need to look at my interests, and I need to be sensible, and I need to be aware of my capabilities as well.
We have been very actively shaping the neighbourhood for the last decade. The kinds of things which we are doing would be very reminiscent of what the[Association of South-East Asian Nations] did, what Europe did, what parts of Latin America did, except this time it’s a country driving it, it’s not a regional compact. So if you look at power transmission, if you look at fuel lines, at roads, waterways, rail lines, airports, South Asia has actually undergone a transformation.
Preparations for a global footprint take two generations, we should have started earlier, but at least we are starting now. So how do you get people in Latin America and Central America and Mongolia and the Pacific used to India in their calculations? You know, how do you trade with them? How do you do projects? How do they know your products? Where is the intersection of interests? All of this is happening at the same time, so it’s a long answer.
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