30 Apr Raisina Dialogue: The India’s Foreign Policy
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Raisina Dialogue is India’s flagship conference to discuss geo-economic and geo-political strategies held annually since 2016. The seventh dialogue held in April 2022 involved more than 200 speakers from more than 90 countries and multilateral organisation to discuss the most challenging issues the global world is facing today. In the last conference, representatives from around the globe like US, Canada, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Maldives, Norway, Armenia, Nepal, World Health Organisation, the United Nations, World Bank, defence experts, International relations and business professionals. The theme of debate was ‘Teranova: Impassioned, Impatient and Imperilled’ which included six indispensable keynote ,namely, Rethinking Democracy: Trade, Tech, and Ideology; End of Multilateralism: A Networked Global Order?; Water Caucuses: Turbulent Tides of Indo-Pacific; Communities Inc: First Responders to Health, Development and Planet; Achieving Green Transitions: Common Imperatives and Diverging Realities; and Samson vs Goliath: The Persistent and Relentless Tech Wars. The entire dialogue contemplates changing international political order which is intertwined with economic, security, culture, strategic and people to people ties.
The first concept ‘Rethinking Democracy: Trade, Tech and Ideology’ is urgently required to contemplate in the wake of democratic decay, Russia-Ukraine Crisis and rise of electoral autocracy in the world. The Covid-19 Pandemic has brought economic stress culminating in the problem of anarchy, political populism and reactionary nationalism. The Russia-Ukraine war has accentuated the decline of democracy and rise of economic distress around the globe including Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. International order is under transformation and India needs to project herself as an independent actor in global politics. India is a world largest democracy and always respected sovereignty of all and advocated for peaceful resolution as per the United Nations Charter. India’s position is a “open, free and rule based international order” and free market liberalism for trade and commerce. It recently engaged in a free trade agreement with UAE, Australia and is likely to do the same free trade agreement with the UK, Republic of South Korea and European Union. India is looking for international globalism where cooperation and coordination among nation-states is a priority to bring prosperity and happiness to its own people and to the globe. It would foster maximum globalization and minimum discontent. Today Current Affairs
The next ideas, namely, ‘End of Multilateralism: A Networked Global Order?’ reflects India’s commitment to rule based, just and fairer multilateral international trading systems regulated through institutions like the World Trade Organisation. The Pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war has influenced the international trading system. The entire trade norms are under disarray which needs to be re-corrected. The geo-economics and ego-politics between countries which favour the liberal political order like the US, Canada, Japan, the UK and the EU and the countries which stand in opposition to the liberal political order like Russia and China has brought new challenges to India’s foreign policy. India needs an independent forreign policy which serves national interest. Our national interest is our first priority.
Today the Indo-Pacific region is the most contested region in international politics. India’s Indo-Pacific Ocean Initiative (IPOI) announced in 2018 at Shangri La Dialogue “calls for a free, open and inclusive order in the Indo-Pacific, based upon respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations, peaceful resolution of disputes through dialogue and adherence to international rules and laws. India’s concept of the Indo-Pacific is inclusive in nature, and supports an approach that respects the right to freedom of navigation and overflight for all in the international seas. India’s IndoPacific vision is premised upon the principle of ‘ASEAN-Centrality’.” The rising China is a major challenge to a peaceful, free and open Indo-Pacific” from which fifty percent of the world trade passes. China has coerced its neighbour, claimed its undue sovereignty in South China sea, created artificial islands, manipulated its currency, and through One Belt One Road (OBOR) influenced the small countries brought them under ‘debt trap’ diplomacy. In addition, it has pushed the US influence beyond the Philippines and did ‘no limits’ partnership with Russia. It has tried several times, however, unsuccessfully to change the Line of Actual Control (LoC). India’s engagement with the QUAD, QUAD+ and SAGARMALA project along with revival of regional organizations like BIMSTEC and IORA shows India’s commitment to face any kind of challenges posed by authoritarian China. The Raisina dialogue has debated these issues at greater length and tried to find opportunities to engage European (especially France and Germany) countries on this issue. This is really a strategic move of India’s foreign policy. The Hindu Analysis
To achieve the sustainable development goals and tackle climate change at the global level is also a major challenge to India. The third world is facing a severe food crisis and struggling for basic amenities, like water and major victims of climate related disasters. In the post-liberalisation era, India did excellently well in expanding the economy and reducing inequality and poverty yet needed to work on human security and development. India needs to collaborate with the rest of the world and need to avail all opportunities to bring prosperity to the people. In this case, interacting with world leaders for new business, issues of improvement in sectors like health and education, at New Delhi, would certainly work as new drivers of India’s foreign policy.
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