Why India Must Engage with the World: A Global Strategy

Описание: So what we're trying to say is India has benefited tremendously when it has been open to the world If we want to really sell our goods and services across the world we have to be part of global supply chains So closing down our economy is a bad idea Opening up and engaging with the world is the right idea I think one issue we need to keep also in mind we are seen as a friendly country relative to say China That is why the world is beating apart to our door We cannot be seen as an ugly superpower we cannot exercise our muscles before you know our time has come and even when our time has come we should be much more careful because we need to take countries with us rather than antagonize them and say you shall do this And I think we have to be so the Chinese have a term for their ugliness which is wolf warrior Because you're flexing your muscles and saying rest of the world be scared of us And that causes a reaction The US imposes tariffs because they're scared of China The countries around China have disputes with them because they're scared of China There's an Indian term which is now starting to emerge tiger warrior That we also have a bunch of people who say we're going to exercise our might in the rest of the world First it's too early And second it causes a reaction We don't want that reaction It's better to be liked because they open their trade their goods and services their universities to us To be disliked to be put in the same category as China would mean we don't get the investment we don't get the trade we don't get the people How many people want to come to a country which is antagonistic with theirs So let's be careful about that Giving it an example let's say what we did with Canada recently like we were too harsh we should take a lightened approach No matter what the reality on whether Indian agents were involved Indian government agents were involved in what happened that's still a matter of debate But the reaction to Canada saying you should not try and kill people on our soil was of huge indignation And we you know to some extent pushed back much harder than when the US said exactly the same thing and we were much more cooperative in listening to them