By all reckoning, this has been a dramatic year. With two more months to go, it has already shattered a number of assumptions about global politics and its emerging trend lines. For Indian foreign policy, this year has been full of vexing challenges as well and it has forced Indian policymakers to make some decisive shifts in their engagement with the outside world, in particular where it concerns China.
Chinese aggression has made it impossible for New Delhi to continue with its usual ‘engagement where possible’ refrain because there are hardly any areas where engagement seems possible between the two Asian neighbours. From trade and technology and Taiwan and Tibet, every aspect of their bilateral engagement seems to be in play at the moment.
In the last few weeks itself, we have seen the Quadrilateral security grouping comprising the US, Japan, Australia, and India emerge out of irrelevance into something concrete. By finally inviting Australia to the Malabar exercises, there’s now an attempt to give the so-called Quad a military quotient.
India is reportedly thinking of a trade deal with Taiwan to give ballast to a relationship that has a lot of potentials. And India’s two-plus-two ministerial dialogue with the US saw the two nations signed the long-pending Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA), which allows for the sharing of high-end military technology, logistics, and geospatial maps.
This story is from the October 28, 2020 edition of The Times of India Hyderabad.
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