UK faces difficult path as it resumes courtship with India
David Cameron, Narendra Modi and Boris Johnson pictured in front of Tower Bridge in November 2015. Photograph: Reuters
Boris Johnson is hoping to improve relations with rising superpower but many roadblocks stand in his way
Tue 6 Apr 2021 00.00 EDT
George Osborne, the former British chancellor, tells the story of how, soon after Narendra Modi had been elected prime minister of India in 2014, he and the then foreign secretary, William Hague, alighted on a plan to fly immediately to India to make sure they were the first through the door to congratulate the new leader of the world’s largest democracy.
UK faces difficult path as it resumes courtship with India
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OPINION / ASIAN REVIEW By Long Xingchun Published: Mar 15, 2021 09:52 PM
First Quad summit Illustration: Chen Xia/GTFormer Indian diplomat K. C. Singh published an article on Monday entitled, To fulfill Quad promise, will India self-correct ? The author said that soft power is at the root of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, also known as Quad comprising the US, Japan, India and Australia, and the Quad members were united by democratic values. He suggested that when other countries debate whether democracy is degrading in India, denial and anger is not the answer… self-correction is the answer.
First, it is necessary to point out that the Quad is definitely not united by democratic values. If this is the case, then why have other democratic countries, such as the Philippines, not participated? The fundamental reason for these four countries to unite is not because of their so-called democratic values, but geopolitics. They are unwilling to see China s rise a