Shashi Tharoor on India Non-Aligned Policy: Congress MP and former diplomat Shashi Tharoor said on Saturday (27 January) that China is sitting on the border of India. In such a situation it is not possible for India to remain ‘truly non-aligned’. Due to the chaos in the world, many of India’s foreign policy beliefs have also been affected.
According to news agency PTI, Tharoor, Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, said about India’s non-alignment policy that we are still non-aligned and are members of the Non-Aligned Movement, but at present there is not much clarity about what its specific meaning is. .
Talking about China’s rapid progress, he said that America and the (then) Soviet Union are no longer the two superpowers of the world. He said that now there are two superpowers, one is America and the other is rapidly growing China.
‘China is adopting a hostile attitude’
Congress leader Shashi said all this in a talk show at Kolkata International Book Fair on Saturday. Tharoor said that in such circumstances, when China, which has adopted a hostile attitude, is sitting on the border of India, then one cannot be truly non-aligned with it.
He also emphasized that if China adopts a more aggressive stance, then there is every possibility that India will also have to make concrete choices. Former diplomat Tharoor said that India is not in an alliance like NATO, but it has partnered with America, Australia and Japan in Quad.
‘India is much closer to Israel than before’
The Kerala MP said that India is also a member of a new group I2U2 which includes India, Israel, America and United Arab Emirates. He also said that I do not know what the future of I2U2 is after the Gaza conflict. As far as India’s relations with Israel are concerned, India has come much closer to Israel than before. Bilateral relations between the two countries are strong. PM Narendra Modi He is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel. At the same time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also come here twice.
PM Modi is trying to make the voice of ‘Global South’
He said that PM Modi is making every effort to establish India as the voice of the ‘Global South’. He called this an updated version of the Non-Aligned Movement. He also said that India is also going through a situation of ups and downs in view of international development. The Congress leader said that since independence, every government of India has been associated with the idea of strategic autonomy.
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