What the democratic world wants from India is obvious. But treating India as the answer to every strategic problem carries real risk of alienating the country, writes Misha Zelinsky.
Looking to do business? India’s fifth-largest economy is enormously tantalising. Want to balance Chinese Communist Party authoritarianism? You need a democracy with 1.3 billion people on your team. After skilled labour? A young, English-speaking population is a boon.
“Getting the relationship right means understanding modern India and the aspirations of its people,” Singh told me.After listening to India’s senior cabinet ministers and thinkers at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, I left with two key impressions. One positive, one potentially worrying.After winning independence in 1947, India’s economy was a mere $30 billion. It took 75 years to reach today’s $3 trillion.
India’s differing treatment of Russia and China is a perfect illustration of the dilemma facing those who want to divide the world into “democracies” and “autocracies”. Though India is busily diversifying its military procurement, the bizarre platforming at Raisina of Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, proves that Indian memories are long and die hard.Putin’s dreams of restoring the Soviet Union, Xi’s obsession with correcting China’s “century of humiliation” and Trump’s MAGA movement all draw from the same poisonous wellspring. Once off the leash, grievance can set a nation on a dark course, as Putin is proving in Ukraine.
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