China tore up the modus vivendi in 2020, the LAC is now live: Shivshankar Menon
The Hindu
The world is now facing a hinge moment, which will require India to be clear-eyed in its vision of what it seeks in the international order, says the former National Security Adviser
, a former National Security Adviser, Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to China, traces the history and evolution of India’s foreign policy and place in the world in the new book, “India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present”. He argues the country is served best when interconnected with the world and not by turning inward. The world, he says, is now facing a hinge moment, which will require India to be clear-eyed in its vision of what it seeks in the international order, and particularly in crafting a new modus vivendi with China after last year’s crisis. Excerpts from an interview. There is. In fact, that is precisely why I start the book with that, because it seems to me that because we're the only subcontinent, we are part of a larger continent and we're aware of that. But we also have a very strong sense of our own exceptionalism, of our uniqueness, of how different we are. Therefore there's always a tendency to actually draw down the shutters, withdraw to our own home. That's the main point of the book actually, because that worries me, the fact that I think we have something of that withdrawing going on right now.More Related News
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