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Home Opinion Columns One Year Of Modi Govt One Year of Narendra Modi govt: Bold moves on world stage Comments (29) Email Print India could never really emerge as an independent global power if it could not clean up its act in its regional backyard. Modi understands this. (Illustration by: Pradeep Yadav) Written by Kishore Mahbubani | Updated: May 29, 2015 1:14 pm With Xi Jinping in charge, we now know what the new strong China looks like. With Narendra Modi in charge, we are finally getting glimpses of what the new strong India will look like. It will be a radically different India from the Home Nation World Opinion Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Tech Viral Good News Photos Videos Today's Paper ePaper One Year of Narendra Modi govt: Bold moves on world stage With Narendra Modi’s arrival, the list of genuinely non-aligned powers has grown from two to four: US, Russia, China and India. 2.1k Like 311 63 7 Google +
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India could never really emerge as an independent global power if it could notclean up its act in its regional backyard. Modi understands this. (Illustration by:Pradeep Yadav)
Written by Kishore Mahbubani | Updated: May 29, 2015 1:14 pm
With Xi Jinping in charge, we now know what the new
strong China looks like. With Narendra Modi in charge, we
are finally getting glimpses of what the new strong India
will look like. It will be a radically different India from the
Home Nation World Opinion Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Tech Viral GoodNews Photos Videos Today's Paper ePaper
One Year of Narendra Modigovt: Bold moves onworld stageWith Narendra Modi’s arrival, the list of genuinely non-aligned powers hasgrown from two to four: US, Russia, China and India.
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one that the world has got used to. Three new points stand
out.
The first transformation is paradoxical. For decades, India
has aspired to be a leader of the non-aligned movement.
But it is only now that India is becoming genuinely non-
aligned. This observation is shocking. It deserves an
explanation. What does “genuine non-alignment” mean? At
the NAM summit in Cuba in 1979, at the height of the Cold
War, then Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene shrewdly
observed that there were only two non-aligned countries:
the United States and the Soviet Union. He added that all
other countries were in one way or another aligned with
these two powers. With Modi’s arrival, the list of
“genuinely non-aligned” powers has grown from two to
four. It now includes America, Russia, China and India.
Modi has given birth to a truly multipolar world.
There is no doubt that the world is now full of sharp
differences between key world leaders; for example,
between US President Barack Obama and Russian
President Vladimir Putin, Xi and Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Putin,
and, most sharply, between Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel
and Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran. It takes great political and
psychological confidence to maintain equally good
relations with such sharply divided leaders. Modi has it.
Hence, he can sign deals worth $35 billion with Abe and
then follow up with signing deals worth $22 billion with Xi.
If Modi is shrewd, he can use China-Japan competition to
benefit India. For example, he can encourage China and
Japan to compete in delivering the badly needed bullet
train services to India. Similarly, under Modi, India will
move even closer to Israel, especially in defence
technology. Yet, Modi has also just signed an agreement to
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The second transformation was expected. Modi has moved
India to the right. But he has done it in surprising fashion.
He has no interest in moving towards the Ronald Reagan-
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India truly Non-aligned under Modi!
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Bhaktsingh
The phrase 'badly needed bullet train services inIndia' speaks volumes of author's understanding ofIndia. :)
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Karigar Medha
Good take on NaMo's key transformations for India
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Kuldeep Saxena
It is a fine article as Mr. Modi's visit to variouscountries around the globe had definitely broughtback India. The nation needs to work on policy
back India. The nation needs to work on policymaking to have ecofriendly environment for thedevelopment of the Nation. In addition to thevarious countries interest it will be good time toencourage our own productive units that can be in-house platform. The Nation needs to develop withour own entrepreneurs to join the race that willdefinitely facilitate our own economy as wellindustrial development in the times to come. it willbe good and great if the nation thinks on blendingin house promotion of new entrepreneurs as wellthe FDI that will be a far reaching impact.
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Anandap
The author analysis is very objective and realistic inthe real sense of India's global presence to be feltthat it is going to be for business without blindsiding of any particular country.
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From Modi, we get mostly show and more show,packaging and re-packaging and more of it, alsoonly 'mein' or 'me' and less of 'hum' or 'us'. A lot ofacting and drama. He does not care for the poorand under-privileged. He can give Rs. 6400 Crorescredit to Mongolia and ask SBI to give Rs. 5000Crores to his industrialist friend Adani who helpedhim with thousands of crores funding during the2014 elections, but he cannot take care of the poorfarmers and the hungry people. As per the latestreport of yesterday, there are 140 Million poorpeople in India, the most in the world. He is a smartand manipulative guy and has fooled so manygullible countrymen of mine. Please wake upbefore it is late.
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Raj from Singapore
Dude are you a member of Congress's newonline marketing team? Please get rid of thedynasts in there first.
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What a ridiculous article. The foreign junkets jokers'Government spoke tough regarding the borderissues with Pakistan, and scores of our soldiers gotkilled by the Pakistanis. So much for the pressreleases indicating tough talk. The world leaderswill NEVER have any respect for a selfie-takingjoker. If the foreign junkets joker wanted to sendsome strong message, it should be by firstimproving the myriad issues in India - starting withthe bureaucracy. The foreign investors find toomuch of red tape because of the bureaucracy. Butthe joker is scraed of the bureaucrats. If theindications from the world are anything to go by,India has lost all respect under this joker. But hehas industrialist backers who have got plenty ofcash to pay to the media and journalists.
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xyz from Hyderabad
And Deng did not go to any country to makeChina a superpower.
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anandap from Thiruvananthapuram
Deng had a huge red army and no problemsof pseudo secularist parties who are alwaysagainst development and modernization!
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Aditya from Bangalore
"Indications from the world"? Did you havelunch with Obama yesterday?
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