The government wants to use the G20 as a stage for Narendra Modi to show off the strides India has made to visiting bigwigs and, with a general election due next year, also to Indian voters
while slapping sanctions on Russia. Some poor and middle-income countries, including India, also worry about China. But when it comes to Ukraine, they, with India again to the fore, are mainly concerned about the damaging effect of Western sanctions on food and energy security and their public finances.
There is little to suggest India will make a serious effort to bridge such gaps. Forging consensus requires horse-trading and compromise, neither of which is prominent in Indian foreign policy. It elevates the pursuit of narrow self-interest, issue-by-issue and never mind the contradictions, to the level of doctrine.
critical of Mr Modi’s role during a bloody pogrom against Muslims in his native state of Gujarat, was an attack on India by foreign powers. “There is a phrase called ‘war by other means’. This is politics by other means…I don’t know if election season has started in India, but for sure it has started in London and New York,” he said. India’s Western admirers are to a great extent willing to overlook such nonsense. Still, grandstanding and paranoia are not conducive to global leadership.
Restructuring sovereign debt is another sticking-point, says Heribert Dieter of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, in Berlin. “China has made it clear it will not participate in restructuring, and Western countries will not accept haircuts only for the money to be spent on paying China back.
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