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From east to west: India’s geostrategic outreach covers extended neighbourhood
FirstpostIn a quick turn of events, New Delhi’s reach and outreach have spread militarily in the west and diplomatically in the east. One involves a non-state actor in the west, and the other relates to a dominant state player in the east It is a coincidence, yes, but almost overnight, India’s defence and diplomatic outreach have separately taken wings, all at the same time, to cover the extended neighbourhood, where the nation’s presence has mostly been confined to bilateral trade, diplomacy, and even security cooperation outside of larger regional concerns and interests. It is anybody’s guess what Jaishankar meant by India’s support for the Philippines to protect its sovereignty, but he definitely did discuss the expansion of political, defence, and security cooperation between the two. By defying the US friend and its West European allies on ‘Russian sanctions’ and continuing to import oil from Moscow, India demonstrated where one’s nose ends and the other’s begins. With this one master stroke—unlike China, which also defied the sanctions regime—India is a democracy, and on that limited count at least, the West considers the nation as ‘one of us’.
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