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BANSOD TYPING INSTITUTE CHHINDWARA M.P. (CPCT-TEST)

created Jul 15th 2021, 14:25 by Sawan Ivnati


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India's neighbourhood is in ferment. Expansionist China is everywhere and America is withdrawing from Afghanistan. The wider impact of these aside, domestic politics in Nepal -which just witnessed another change in government - Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives present different challenges for India. And Pakistan, partly thanks to the Afghan situation, is even more of an uncertain entity now. This moment perhaps calls for rewriting some of the old rules of the South Asian game. In Afghanistan, India’s long-held position to support the national government must be finessed by starting work on establishing some sort of understanding with the Taliban. Plus, and in different ways, India should engage with Iran and Pakistan while it tries to solve the Afghan conundrum. Similarly, Nepal's revolving door governments mean India should be looking at a smart neutral approach and deal with whoever is in power  not play favourites, as it sometimes has, and not always with happy consequences. It has already partly made this realpolitik shift in Sri Lanka, where the Rajapaksa family is now firmly entrenched. The case in Bangladesh is different, as the current government is one of India’s most valuable allies, and its economy is currently a success story. Politics in the country, like in India, is deeply polarised and just like in India, there is a vaccine shortage. In fact, New Delhi's good image has taken a bit of battering because it hasn't supplied as many doses as Dhaka would have liked. The challenge here is to maintain influence in tricky times, and decide what to do with BNP, which has long wanted an audience with New Delhi. It is even trickier in the Maldives, where jailed ex-president Abdullah Yameen wants India’s help, but Yameen's Beijing tilt when in power complicates matters. Here cold realpolitik calls may have to be made depending on China's next moves. China, India must remember, doesn't care who is in power in countries it is interested in. And that applies to Afghanistan as well. India has one advantage now, though. Pakistan's determinedly uncritical policy on debts to China aside, questions about China's approach are growing. Bangladesh's decision not to allow Chinese investments in deep-sea ports is a good example of this. Sri Lanka is another country where India can use ambivalence about Chinese state investment to good strategic use. India's resources are far less than China's. That's why its diplomacy has to be much smarter.

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