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Rigid alliances will be avoided: India
Context
- Joining the first official-level meeting of the new quadrilateral grouping in the Asia Pacific region, India stressed that it will avoid rigid geopolitical alliances.
What shall be India’s new policy?
- Launching a new policy-oriented club for diplomats in view of the global uncertainties, India will have an “open-minded approach” to international politics.
Cautionary position
- India will continue to adopt a cautionary position regarding the budding groupings and alliances in the morphing world order.
- This is the second time in a week that the top diplomat of India has sounded a note of caution in international affairs.
- Mr. Jaishankar had earlier downplayed the meeting, arguing that the alliance was one of the many such groupings that India had recently participated in.
