{"id":149138,"date":"2021-11-26T20:40:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=149138"},"modified":"2021-11-26T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:10:29","slug":"economic-heft-and-foreign-policy-posturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/economic-heft-and-foreign-policy-posturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic heft and foreign policy posturing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> India&#8217;s foreign policy options are limited by its relatively inadequate economic size and technological capabilities.<\/p>\n<h5>How economic considerations of a nation can influence its foreign policy stance?<\/h5>\n<p>This can be easily understood by analyzing the difference in the West\u2019s posture towards China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For instance<\/strong>, with respect to Russia, the western journals repeatedly condemn Mr Putin\u2019s violations of human rights within Russia, such as the targeting of Alexei Navalny.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, they overlook China\u2019s oppression of millions of people living within its own borders, for example the Uighurs and Tibetans.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0 contrast is because Western real and financial sector companies continue to profit enormously by having invested in mega-scale production of goods and services in China.<\/p>\n<p>Further, China\u2019s huge investments around the world, and being a huge exporter of a range of engineering products, provides them a significant power to influence international policies.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the way forward for India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>China\u2019s economic heft has contributed to its <strong>aggressive external posturing<\/strong>, including armed intrusions into Indian territory, extravagant claims over all of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in the economic size, foreign direct investment-related numbers and military strength of neighboring and major powers, like China, should be <strong>factored by India in its foreign policy framework.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Economic heft and foreign policy posturing<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>Business standard<\/strong> on <strong>26th November<\/strong> <strong>2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India&#8217;s foreign policy options are limited by its relatively inadequate economic size and technological capabilities. How economic considerations of a nation can influence its foreign policy stance? This can be easily understood by analyzing the difference in the West\u2019s posture towards China and Russia. For instance, with respect to Russia, the western journals repeatedly&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/economic-heft-and-foreign-policy-posturing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economic heft and foreign policy posturing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-149138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704677609},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}