India Can't Stay Non-Aligned, China Sitting On Frontiers: Shashi Tharoor
NDTV
Shashi Tharoor said if China were to take a "more directly belligerent posture, there is every likelihood that hard choices will have to be made by India".
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that with China sitting on India's frontiers, it is not possible for India to remain “truly non-aligned”. He said that the world being in disorder has shaken some of the assumptions of India's foreign policy.
"We are still non-aligned and a member of the non-aligned movement. But what does that mean anymore is not very clear, because the two superpowers are no longer the US and the (erstwhile) Soviet Union. They are the US and increasingly China," he said.
In that situation, Delhi cannot be truly non-aligned with a hostile China "sitting at India's frontiers", Mr Tharoor said while speaking at a talk show at the Kolkata International Book Fair.
