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India’s foreign-policy stance of being enemies with none and friends with all is playing out in real-time as it deepens relations with participants at both ends of the geopolitical spectrum, from the United States to Russia. How will its strengthening US partnership affect its historically checkered relationship with neighbouring China?
As strategic autonomy makes way for a tighter military embrace with Washington, India will find that its room for manoeuvre in the face of emerging challenges has narrowed.
This is the moment of reckoning for India, especially Modi, who is the singular force behind India’s statecraft and diplomacy. Both the US and China want its support.
Two critical decisions taken at the recent Quad summit will increase the gulf between India and other countries of South Asia.
India has not managed to deter China, as the growing transgressions in Ladakh show, but has succeeded in bringing Beijing and Pakistan’s GHQ even closer together.