“From global stage to strategic silence: India’s bold diplomacy faces new test in Trump era”, First Post, November 08, 2025
“One of the major reasons for India’s success in the last decade has been its deft and often bold foreign policy choices. Whether it was the decision to stand up and defy the West despite the threat of sanctions by continuing to buy Russian crude oil after the breakout of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022, or Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call that “this is not the era of war” at the SCO Summit in Samarkand in September 2022, India has made many crucial foreign policy choices. These decisions have propelled the country to the global centre stage.
The Vaccine Maitri during the Covid-19 pandemic, when India supplied Covid vaccines to more than 100 countries, won India global goodwill, especially within the Global South. The G20 Summit in Delhi in September 2023 was a crowning glory where, despite huge contradictions in the text of the joint statement due to the Russia-Ukraine war, the Delhi Declaration was signed unanimously, without a single footnote of disagreement.
The launch of transcontinental connectivity projects like the India Middle East Europe Economic Corridor (Imec) has projected India as the hub of global connectivity. Plus, the decision of India to become the voice of the Global South, first by having the African Union included in the G20 and thereafter, hosting Global South Summits, too, has been hugely successful for India……”
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