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France & India share a sense of ‘cultural exceptionalism’ & take pride in ‘argumentative intellectualism’. This makes Ind-Fr relns spl…French Embassy in India 🇫🇷🇪🇺 Thierry Mathou
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What makes the India-France 'Strategic Partnership' Tick rakeshsood.in/2024/02/01/wha…

Amb.Bhaswati Mukherjee Pavan K. Varma Rakesh Sood India International Centre(Official Account) “Slavery and Indenture are two sides of the colonial coin”
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Current U.S. policy doesn’t serve Israel’s interests or Biden’s re-election interests; it only helps prolong Bibi in power and increases the risk of getting the U.S. more deeply involved n a conflict that it doesn’t wish to.

This kind of muscle flexing about ‘protectorates’ needs resources to match your adversary (China). So let’s wait before chest thumping

Beg to disagree. We have seen among the worst phases of India’s relations with Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives during last 10 years. With Bangladesh, relns have been stable because of Sheikh Hasina. With Bhutan, let us wait till we learn about its boundary agreement with China.

One key reason is that India has not put forward a coherent policy for #SouthAsia in any consistent fashion, preferring instead to deal with each neighbour bilaterally as this put India at an advantage.

Rakesh Sood writes.

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#NPT in 1970 had 60 countries; by 1990s, with US and Russia pushing, there were 191. Today, only India, Israel, North Korea & Pakistan are out of it. Has it reached the limits of its success?
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Rakesh Sood emphasized global ambitions to rewrite history, focusing on🇺🇸, 🇷🇺, and🇨🇳.He urged European unity for a multipolar world, cautioning that multipolarity without multilateralism brings chaos, imposing balancing on every nation for a more uncertain and unpredictable world

Till 1991, during US-USSR bipolarity, rule was that the two hegemons would engage in proxy wars, never directly; thereafter till 2008 was US unipolarity and hubris; rivalries re-emerged leading to multipolarity. But without ‘multilateralism’ multipolarity leads to wars & chaos.