Modi has built ties with the Gulf and Japan but nations closer home remain aloof
The BJP’s 2014 policy promised to ‘reboot and reorient foreign policy’. Five years later, an outcome-oriented foreign policy seems to be the government’s biggest achievement, even as the challenge of Pakistan and a rising China remains.
HIGHS
Reboot and reorientation of its foreign policy visibly led by a globetrotting prime minister.
PM Narendra Modi has visited 93 countries in nearly five years in office, as many as visited by former PM Manmohan Singh in a decade in office
Major wins include outreach to the Arab world—Saudi Arabia and UAE— and to Japan.
This story is from the April 22, 2019 edition of India Today.
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