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Time to move on:
Beijing’s aggression has made India’s diffidence about alignment obsolete
Beijing’s aggression has made India’s diffidence about alignment obsolete
Time to move on: Beijing’s aggression has made India’s diffidence about alignment obsolete
By all reckoning, this has been a dramatic year. With two more months to go, it has already shattered a number of assumptions about global politics and its emerging trend lines. For Indian foreign policy,...
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By all reckoning, this has been a dramatic year. With two more months to go, it has already shattered a number of assumptions about global politics and its emerging trend lines. For Indian foreign policy, this year has been full of vexing challenges as well and it has forced Indian policy makers to make some decisive shifts in their engagement with the outside world, in particular where it concerns China.
Chinese aggression has made it impossible for New Delhi to continue with its usual ‘engagement where possible’ refrain, because there are hardly any areas where engagement seems possible between the two Asian neighbours. From trade and technology and Taiwan and Tibet, every aspect of their bilateral engagement seems to be in play at the moment.
In the last few weeks itself, we have seen the Quadrilateral security grouping comprising the US, Japan, Australia and India emerge out of irrelevance into something concrete. By finally inviting Australia to the Malabar exercises, there’s now an attempt to give the so-called Quad a military quotient.
India is reportedly thinking of a trade deal with Taiwan to give ballast to a relationship which has a lot of potential. And India’s two-plus-two ministerial dialogue with the US saw the two nations signing the long-pending Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA), which allows for the sharing of high-end military technology, logistics and geospatial maps.
Comment:
During this past year China has made incursions into India's borders in the area of Tibet since the late 1950's.
Lately these attacks have increased.
Yes, India has been fence sitting for decades due to it's internal politics, yet they have recently decided that China's aggression has been rising.
Their trade alliance with America, Australia and Japan is by far a good strategy that can include Tiawan and perhaps even South Korea.
This aliance may hold China's expansion hopes in check.